Hi all, I have not followed this discussion closely, but I did want to add on one point:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Vladimir Prus wrote: > > > > BTW what if I want ? as a part of my parameter name? > > Do you need this really? > > > For example: > > > > my_program /roll trace file? = "yes" > > > > CLA is basic facility that is used by many people with different habits. You > > could not afford to incur too many restrictions. > > I think that *existing* habits shold be supported. However, the library should > encourage some "standard" command line style. Contrived command line style is > only an inconvenience to user. As an example: what does "-r" option to CVS > does? (It has 2 unrelated meanings, and about 4 syntax variations) Some programs might support a command line like this: my_program ? To print out help information (ie same as my_program --help). Therefore, allowing ? as a command line argument is an important use case. I am not sure whether or not Vladimir's proposal would support a question mark by itself. Regards, -Tom Wenisch Computer Architecture Lab Carnegie Mellon University _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
