[Bioperl-l] Bio::SearchIO::hmmer hsp behaviour

[Sendu Bala]

Jason Stajich wrote:
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> Feel free to propose an alternative implement for parser as you see  
> fit as long as the API is preserved.  you can contibute a new  
> SearchIO plugin and HMMERSearchResultListener to deal with it - or [snip]

What's the thinking behind the way SearchIOs work? Is it necessary or 
desirable to always do it with events and listeners? Or is it enough to 
simply return a ResultI regardless of how you made it?