Re: Traps for module writers [was: Re: anonymous proxy server in

Nick Ing-Simmons (nik@tiuk.ti.com)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:09:54 GMT


<Chaimf@cris.com> writes:
>Why not just a simple module to take care of the localization?
>
>	use start_module;
>
>All will be set to the defaults for the file.

Which is completely useless.

All the traps are 'local' variables and many global to module name-space.
So if user-code calls you there is no telling that defaults are still 
in effect. Also that will trample over user's own settings and so break
her code.