[Bioperl-l] some not-so-good perl practice in bioperl

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gnf.org
Mon Dec 22 11:46:37 EST 2003


On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 06:57  AM, Lincoln Stein wrote:

>  A big problem in using any autoloader-based accessor system
> is that the UNIVERSAL::can() method will no longer work properly on
> autoloaded methods

Very true, thanks for pointing this out. bioperl-db would immediately 
and completely break, for instance, as it relies entirely on can() for 
wrapping objects with a persistence shell.

	-hilmar
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