[Bioperl-l] $_ assignment question

Hilmar Lapp hlapp at gnf.org
Thu Jul 31 14:37:16 EDT 2003


I see. There's actually a number of bioperl contributors who (seem to) 
like that style a lot.

If you want to get rid of this (which I'd support) there needs to be a 
clear statement to this effect in a Bioperl Coding Conventions document 
(biodesign.pod? does anybody actually read that?).

	-hilmar

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 11:32  AM, Jason Stajich wrote:

>
> my $obj = new Bio::SeqIO(..);
> instead of
> my $obj = Bio::SeqIO->new(..);
>
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 05:46  AM, Jonathan Barber wrote:
>>
>>>  indirect invocation of methods is being
>>> used in some places, according to Damian Conway [1], this is a bad
>>> idea.
>>
>> I feel really stupid to ask but what is indirect invocation of a 
>> method?
>>
>> 	-hilmar
>>
>
> --
> Jason Stajich
> Duke University
> jason at cgt.mc.duke.edu
>
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