[Bioperl-l] {flush,remove}_<Object>

[Hilmar Lapp]

The remove/flush methods for array attributes setting those to empty 
arrays I think all return TRUE (the value 1). (Why are there 
remove_XXX and flush_XXX? which is preferred? Shall we fix this?)

ChrisZ actually started implementing that in a way that I find 
potentially quite useful: remove_XXXX resets the array, but returns 
the previous content. Allegedly, Lincoln uses this style too ...

Should we adopt this as the new convention, and fix existing methods 
to comply? I'd vote yes.

	-hilmar

--
-------------------------------------------------------------
Hilmar Lapp                            email: lapp at gnf.org
GNF, San Diego, Ca. 92121              phone: +1-858-812-1757
-------------------------------------------------------------