On tis, 2004-10-05 at 16:40, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Yes, it would be much more convenient to be initialized on "use", > if you gave it the right parameters, or initialized later if not.
Sorry for being stubborn, but I disagree with this. I'm not arguing against you to avoid work; we're only talking about a handful lines of code. To me, specifying the initialization parameters in the "use"-line has two major drawbacks: It is non-standard. The great majority of modules on CPAN uses the "use"-line to specify which symbols to import. To use it for something else would probably confuse a lot of users. I didn't even think it was possible before we started this discussion. It makes it impossible to export any symbols (conditionally) from HTTP::TransparentCache later. The only advantage I can see with doing initialization via the use-line is to avoid a single line of code for each program that uses HTTP::TransparentCache. To me, these two drawbacks outweigh the convenience of getting rid of the init-call by far. Unless you have a convincing argument for why initialization via the use-line is superior, I will not implement this feature. Sorry. /Mattias
