First of all please use <code> tags rather than doing your own formatting. (Cleaner, people can download your code, etc.)

Anyways this feature makes me deeply suspicious. What is this for? Personally I like using modules that are designed to be used multiple times in multiple places. This looks like it would be used to initialize a number of globals in the module. That would mean that if I used modules A and B which both used C, I could get hosed. But I shouldn't need to know anything about what A and B do internally. Therefore C should be designed so that can be used by multiple modules at the same time without any conflict.

Hmmmm..

I could be very wrong, but my inclination would be to ask how your module is structured, and ask whether there is a cleaner design that could be used. For instance use an OO style where you pass parameters into new()...

Incidentally your comment about specifying types raises another design flag for me. Perl is untyped, and does not have a type system in the sense that you see in other languages. Trying to mix concepts from a type system with Perl is generally a sign that you are doing something wrong (or using the wrong tool).

I don't mean to sound so down on your feature request. Why don't you describe in more detail what a sample problem is where you would find this useful, and we can see whether there is another way to organize this?

In reply to Re (tilly) 3: Passing parameters to a module's import function by tilly
in thread Passing parameters to a module's import function by rrwo

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