From d9f5c07f22f8ec2cb9209db39f629757b97af1b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William McLaren <wm2@ebi.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:56:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix for old fasta method delegation

---
 modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/FastaSequence.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/FastaSequence.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/FastaSequence.pm
index 5b31a378e0..8f5be6f1f8 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/FastaSequence.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/FastaSequence.pm
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ sub _new_slice_seq {
       if(!($fa_length && $fa_length > 0) && $self->can('_fasta_old_db_seq')) {
         print STDERR "USING DATABASE\n" if $DEBUG;
         return
-          defined($start) || defined($end) || defined($strand) ?
+          scalar(@_) > 1 ?
           $self->_fasta_old_db_subseq($start, $end, $strand) :
           $self->_fasta_old_db_seq();
       }