[Bioperl-l] struggling with Bio::FeatureIO and Bio::SeqFeature::Annotated

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at 01:45  AM, Allen Day wrote:

>>> because Bio::SeqFeautre::Annotated holds annotations as
>>> objects pointers
>>> rather than strings.  We can fix this with a stringification
>>> overload, but I noticed that the code exists to do this in the 
>>> Bio::Annotation::*
>>> classes but is commented out, and I'm not sure why.  Maybe
>>> Hilmar can shed some light on this.
>>>

sorry I think I missed this. I don't know what pieces of code you're 
talking about, so I can't shed light either. Where did you see the 
commented out stringification overload? I checked SimpleValue and 
couldn't see anything.

Generally, I'd comment that if a method is supposed to return an array 
of strings but in violation returns an array of objects, then adding 
stringification overload to the returned objects' implementations is 
the wrong strategy.

	-hilmar
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