>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: Ben> Actually, Oscar, I was suggesting more simple changes, Ben> i.e. just make your API consistent with general Elisp API Ben> principles. Ben> For example: Ben> -- Instead of ldap-add-internal, just call it ldap-put and Ben> make it the advertised Ben> interface. There is no need to provide an interface like Ben> ldap-add that automatically does an open and a close, Ben> displays messages, looks for ldap-default-host, etc. Follow Ben> standard convention and make the caller do this. But then just about every program that uses it will need to define a wrapper function that does all that.