Your point about multiple modules using it is a good one. However, this module is not likely to be used by anything other than a main program (it's a version of Win32::EventLog::Carp which traps warnings and fatals and posts them in the Windows NT event log; I'd like to give the option of specifying a different source name, so that related scripts can show up in the logs using one name than each individual script's file name.)

I'm experimenting with various ways to handling this. By specifying these options upon importing, compilation errors and warnings will be logged under the parameters specified--as "FooProject" rather than "index.pl" and logged in the System log rather than Application log, for instance.

This is a very specialized case, so it probably would make more sense in a separate module which extends Exporter rather than Exporter. But there are cases where one may want to pass some configuration information to the module.

As for specifying types, that feature isn't important to me. Sometimes people want it.

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

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