Write brief descriptions of the main features of declarative programming, OO programming, logic programming, and functional programming. (See Section 3.14.)
Exercise 3.2
Give an example of a programming job that would be better with OO programming than with declarative programming.
Exercise 3.3
Give an example of a programming job that would be better with declarative programming than with OO programming.
Exercise 3.4
What bioinformatics problem might be best addressed with logic programming?
Exercise 3.5
Download and use a Perl class from CPAN.
Exercise 3.6
Write a Perl class that manages laboratory supplies .
Exercise 3.7
When would you want a separate initialization method for a class; when would you want the initialization to be part of the new constructor?
Exercise 3.8
Modify Gene.pm to keep count of how many objects refer to given organisms, chromosomes, authors, pdb references, and names .
Exercise 3.9
Add a DESTROY method to a class so an object can self-destruct.
Exercise 3.10
Beginning in the code for Gene3.pm you'll find the following regular expression:
if($AUTOLOAD =~ /.*(_\w+)/) { $attribute = ;
This only catches the last part of a name that has an underscore . What if you want to allow names such as get_other_var ? Write a regular expression that would extract such names as other_var from get_other_var .
Exercise 3.11
In the code for Gene2.pm you'll find the following regular mutator method:
sub set_name { my ($self, $name) = @_; $self->{_name} = $name if $name; }
This breaks if $name has certain values such as "", 0, or 0E0. How can you catch these cases?
