Re: Bio::DB::Fasta changes

Much obliged to you.

Lincoln

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Florent Angly <florent.angly <at> gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I resolved the issue, i.e. restored the ability to return a list of IDs
> (or a single scalar one), added some documentation to make it explicit and
> added unit tests:
> https://redmine.open-bio.org/**issues/3389<https://redmine.open-bio.org/issues/3389>
>
> Florent
>
>
>
> On 29/10/12 20:38, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
>> Florent Angly wrote:
>>
>>> I suspect that this bug report you cited unveiled a corner case that was
>>> not covered by the tests. I'll assign the bug to myself and investigate.
>>>
>> It looks to me like the previous code and documentation don't match. The
>> CPAN docs, the git docs and the git code all appear to agree that there
>> is a single scalar result. But the CPAN code implements an array result.
>>
>> >From the sound of it, people have been relying on an undocumented
>> feature. But there was a specific change in the code behaviour. As Chris
>> says, it seems like some discussion of the correct resolution would be
>> sensible.
>>
>> Cheers, Dave
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