[Bioperl-l] proposed additions to SeqFeatureI, RangeI and FeatureHolderI

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 11:46  AM, Chris Mungall wrote:

> there seems to be 3 different kinds of attributes:
>
> foo()                   foo($foo)
> get_foo()               set_foo($foo)
> get_tag_values('foo')   set_tag_values('foo', [$foo])
>
> I'm not sure what the rules are for deciding which attributes have 
> which
> kinds of accessor
>

Sort of late reply, but generally speaking scalar properties get a 
simple-named dual getter/setter accessor (foo(), foo($newfoo)), whereas 
array properties have the get_XXXX() naming.

Theoretically at least ...

	-hilmar
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