Not to pick-nits, but if you really want to do a line count compare shouldn't you include the lines in the module? After all, you are including them.

Also, you can just write your own sub and then every subsequent need would only be 1 line as well.

Why write your own? Because it's a trivial solution and you don't have to download yet another module for it. Then again, that's why I started this thread. To discuss when it makes sense to download another module.