I've written a function, fwhm, that goes fast without plotting anything 
(which is the usual usage).
But if one optional argument is dodraw = true, it draws a figure to 
visualize its doings.
To draw the figure it uses the package Gadfly. But "using Gadfly" takes 
time to execute (the first time), and most of the sessions it is not needed 
because by default dodraw = false.
Since I cannot do "using Gadfly" inside a function, I cannot do something 
like this:

function fwhm(xk, yk; dodraw::Bool=false)
  # ...

  if dodraw
    using Gadfly
    plot(x=xk, y=yk)  # etc.
  end

  # ...
end

I don't want to add overhead time to every session I use the module where 
fwhm is, because most of the times dodraw = false and I just need a fast 
result without figures.
Any idea?
Thank you in advance.

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