David Block wrote: > Remember, everything is a vector with start, direction and length? :) yeah, for the database... but I didn't think this was coded into our objects so tightly. It doesn't *matter* so much, so long as people are aware of it. > You mean both undef and 0 are 'false' - they're not equal to each other, yes, I mean they *behave* as if they are equal to each other! perl -e 'my $x; print "yeah" if ($x==0)' ...doesn't give me the response I had anticipated, since $x can come into the routine with a (valid) value of zero, or a null value of undef, and they mean different things w.r.t. the routine. > but they're both not true - the enemy of my enemy is my friend? you can pick yer friends, and you can pick yer... yeah.... whatever. > > non-functional :-) > I would think so, in this case. Once I get a writeable adaptor later for Genbank working then it will be functional. > Every once in a while I start Genquire up and it just works - wow. do you mean every once in a while you say "wow", or do you mean that every once in a while it just works? ;-) > let's publish away, and > get some kinks worked out! Okay, I'll send in the paper first thing Monday. M -- -------------------------------- "Speed is subsittute fo accurancy." ________________________________ Dr. Mark Wilkinson Bioinformatics Group National Research Council of Canada Plant Biotechnology Institute 110 Gymnasium Place Saskatoon, SK Canada