[BioPerl] Re: [Bioperl-l] How to check the validity of an accession number ?

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 03:10, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:

> The change is in the bioperl code. It was put in almost 11 months ago
> for the 1.2 release. As the error message indicates, line 177 in
> Bio::DB::WebDBSeqI now throws an error.

Although I am now "getting used to it", I have to say that I found the
earlier behaviour much more sensible and easier to deal with... why was
this change made in this way?

Mark