[Bioperl-l] For CVS developers - potential pitfallwith"returnundef"

[Hilmar Lapp]

On May 31, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Chris Fields wrote:

> I've seen a lot of methods (mainly get/setters)
> that are essentially copied multiple times in the same or across  
> similar
> modules to save time.  You could see a scenario where, in those  
> instances,
> so-called 'bad code' would spread quite quickly.

This will usually be code generated by macros, e.g. the emacs macros  
for getter/setter generation for properties.

If the macro generates wrong code, that's indeed pretty bad. (We've  
had that.) OTOH it should be spotted quickly as well. And macro  
changes or new macros should probably be scrutinized by all eyes  
watching ...

	-hilmar

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