[Bioperl-l] argument checking

[Richard Adams]

I was wondering what developers thought about a generic argument 
checking method, say in Bio::Root::Root.
Obviously the world has continued turning without it since BioPerl's 
inception but it might
save  quite few lines of code throughout the whole package.
What I'm thinking of is

e.g., in usage
sub x {
my ($self, $arg1, $arg2) = @_;
$self->check_args('Bio::SeqI' => $arg1,
                                'array',       => $arg2);
##.. rest of method
}

Apologies if there is this functionality lurking somewhere and I've not 
found it yet.

Richard

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Dr Richard Adams
Psychiatric Genetics Group,
Medical Genetics,
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