note bsb Often you want two APIs, a comprehensive and flexible one, and an idiomatic DWIM wrapper Blah::Simple. <p> One way to reality check your design decisions is to compare your API to another API from a different but comparable domain. <p> Another test (that I need) is to return to your design after some months. "What was I thinking?!" is often the result when you lose the blinkers of your original problem. <p> I don't like API designs that second guess you, nor those that strictly follow a non-Perlish design (usually found in library or system wrappers) 338941 338941