Your flamebait has attracted enough interesting and useful replies that I've just added it to my list of references at On Interfaces and APIs. :)

As discussed in that node -- and as you have discovered -- the dark art of interface and API design is certainly not an easy one to master!

> Or maybe, just maybe, you have no clue what I am doing and why I need all the variables in a single subroutine

Instead of ranting like that in an eight-level deep reply to an old thread started by BernieC, I suggest you start a new thread clearly describing the problem you are trying to solve, along with your proposed API to solve it. Much more likely to elicit useful replies that will improve your initial attempt at an API. 

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In reply to Re^9: Converting Unicode by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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