RE: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern) -) Structured access to the option settings -) Option to pass in something other @ARGV to the arg-processing code. Id be curious what you mean by the first, and Im confused why the obvious solution to the second is not good

Re: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
Greetings, On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:06:49AM +0100, Orton, Yves wrote: -) Structured access to the option settings -) Option to pass in something other @ARGV to the arg-processing code. Id be curious what you mean by the first, I mean the ability to query Getopt::Long, either by an

Re: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread Johan Vromans
Martyn J. Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It does, and it works, and it is a stylistic thing perhaps, but although global variables can be made to work, the modern phenomenon of function arguments are very popular. You mean, you are going to pass things like STDOUT, STDERR, ENV and so on, to

Re: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Orton, Yves [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-20 12:15]: Im confused why the obvious solution to the second is not good enough. local @[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Goes a long way you know. I don’t like that at all, myself. It works, sure, but then so does “local $/”, and guess what’s happening to all

Re: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# The following was supposedly scribed by # A. Pagaltzis # on Monday 20 June 2005 08:57 am: I don’t see how being able to *optionally* say something like     GetOptions(         [EMAIL PROTECTED],         # ...     ); would detract from anything at all. I don't think you really need to be able

Re: Getopt::Long wishes (was: RFC: Getopt::Modern)

2005-06-20 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
Le lundi 20 juin 2005 à 09:09, Eric Wilhelm écrivait: # The following was supposedly scribed by # A. Pagaltzis # on Monday 20 June 2005 08:57 am: I don???t see how being able to *optionally* say something like     GetOptions(         [EMAIL PROTECTED],         # ...     ); would