[Bioperl-l] Simplifications now possible with Perl 5.6.1 requirement?

[Torsten Seemann]

Now that we are confirmed that Perl 5.6.1 is a minimum requirement The
bioperl-live code base could be simplified somewhat. Below are some 
major examples. Any thoughts, comments, additions ?

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our $x; # or my $x (where appropriate)
# instead of
use vars ($x); BEGIN { $x=... };

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use base qw(Bio::Class);
# instead of
use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA=qw(Bio::Class);

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use Test;
BEGIN { plan tests => 42 }
# instead of
use lib './';
BEGIN {
     eval { require Test; };
     if ( $@ ) { use lib 't'; }
     use Test;
     plan tests => 42;
}

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open my $FH, '>', $infile
# instead of
open FH, ">$infile";

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Please contribute to http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Bioperl_Best_Practices

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Dr Torsten Seemann               http://www.vicbioinformatics.com
Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Australia