On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM Mohammad Akhlaghi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This email is about using '-inf' as an argument (negative infinity), not
> a short option '-i' in Argp. It happened to one of Gnuastro's users and
> the only solution that occurred to me was to set it to the vertical TAB
> (ASCII code 11) so Argp parses it as an argument, then convert it back
> afterward Argp (see [1]).

One suggestion that I haven't seen yet is to invoke the binary with --
to mark the end of options, like this:

astarithmetic -- 2 -inf x

This is a standard approach that should work with every binary that
accepts options in a Unix-like way.

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