[Bioperl-l] attribute setting and return value

Ewan Birney birney@ebi.ac.uk
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:18:34 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Tim Bunce wrote:

> Another problem with both styles shown is that you can set an attribute to undef.
> Here's an alternative to the first style (it's also faster):

Quite often you want to be able to set an attribute to undef to indicate
absence.