[Bioperl-l] $_ assignment question

Jason Stajich jason at cgt.duhs.duke.edu
Thu Jul 31 14:32:36 EDT 2003


my $obj = new Bio::SeqIO(..);
instead of
my $obj = Bio::SeqIO->new(..);

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 05:46  AM, Jonathan Barber wrote:
>
> >  indirect invocation of methods is being
> > used in some places, according to Damian Conway [1], this is a bad
> > idea.
>
> I feel really stupid to ask but what is indirect invocation of a method?
>
> 	-hilmar
>

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