[Mono-dev] Program Option Parsing Library

"Andrés G. Aragoneses" knocte at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 13:45:24 EST 2008


Jay Logue escribió:
> Jonathan Pryor wrote:
>> As for what Getopt::Long does...  "--foo --bar" sets "--bar" as the
>> value of the --foo argument.  "--bar --foo" (i.e. no argument for --foo)
>> generates the output:
>>
>> 	Option foo requires an argument
>>
>> I'm conflicted as to which is the better behavior.
> Yeah, that's a tough one.  I probably lean towards the Getopt behavior 
> as its easier to explain, e.g. "if --foo takes a value, then whatever 
> comes after it will be treated as a value, regardless of what it looks 
> like".

What about giving a warning (or a Y/N confirmation) if --foo receives as
an argument a string that starts with "-" or "--"?

Regards,

	Andrés	[ knocte ]

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