[Bioperl-l] BUG! In RangeI! grrr....

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Elia Stupka wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> we have discovered a bug in bioperl in RangeI, we are trying to recover
> from the shock that we were relying on these methods in some of the
> heuristics of our gene building... just before submission.... grrr... 
> 
> Anyway, the bug is in the _weak and _strong methods of RangeI, the
> following return statements don't evaluate correctly if you use "and",
> and "or" instead of "&&" and "||".................
> 
> in _strong method:
>  return $s1 != 0 && $s2 != 0 && $s1 == $s2;
> 
> in _weak method:
> 
>  return $s1 == 0 || $s2 == 0 || $s1 == $s2;
> 
> $s1 and $s2 are the strands there, and these methods are called when
> overlaps('strong') is called and overlaps('weak') is called....
> 
> I am commiting it to the main trunk, want me to commit it on 072?

Yes. That would be nice. 


> 
> Elia and FuguI in mourning... :(
> 
> 
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