[Bioperl-l] Small changes to some Annotation methods?

[Jason Stajich]

That's a good things to fix.  You can also combine that into a single line
 return @{$self->{'_names'} || []};
and/or we should make sure
there is a
$self->{'_names'} = [];
in the initializer.

Although empty array is slightly different from the undef you are sending.
Depends on whether or not we want ot guarantee an array is sent back.

-jason
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Stefan Kirov wrote:

> Can we change the accessor methods, for example:
> sub each_gene_name{
>    my ($self, at args) = @_;
>
>    return @{$self->{'_names'}};
> }
>
> to
> sub each_gene_name{
>    my ($self, at args) = @_;
>    return undef unless ($self->{'_names'});
>    return @{$self->{'_names'}};
> }
> The current implementation will break the code if  return
> @{$self->{'_names'}} is empty.
> Jason, Heikki- I am asking just in case I am missing something....
>
> Stefan
>
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Jason Stajich
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