On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 10:48 +0200, Tom Eyckmans wrote: [ . . . ] > > I think as time will pass this will become a more frequent issue, I > think the only way around it is not limiting ourselves to one > character options and use -ts (tasks) -ds (depencies) -ps > (properties).
I am used to Unix where - introduces single character options or a
sequence of single character options and long forms are introduced with
--. I think this is a good idiom, and it irritates me that so many
Java-related tools (e.g. javac, java, ant :-) insist on not using this
excellent idiom.
The problem is that:
-ts
is likely to be read as equivalent to:
-t -s
which in a properly structured option system it would be!
--
Russel.
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