On 7/16/20 1:13 PM, Andre Pany wrote:
On Thursday, 16 July 2020 at 05:03:36 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 at 07:12:35 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
[...]
An enhancement is likely to hit some corner-cases involving list
termination requiring choices that are not fully generic. Any time a
legal list value looks like a legal option. Perhaps the most important
case is single digit numeric options like '-1', '-2'. These are legal
short form options, and there are programs that use them. They are
also somewhat common numeric values to include in command lines inputs.
[...]
My naive implementation would be that any dash would stop the list of
multiple values. If you want to have a value containing a space or a
dash, you enclose it with double quotes in the terminal.
Enclose with double quotes in the terminal does nothing:
myapp --modelicalibs "file-a.mo" "file-b.mo"
will give you EXACTLY the same string[] args as:
myapp --modelicalibs file-a.mo file-b.mo
I think Jon's point is that it's difficult to distinguish where an array
list ends if you get the parameters as separate items.
Like:
myapp --numbers 1 2 3 -5 -6
Is that numbers=> [1, 2, 3, -5, -6]
or is it numbers=> [1, 2, 3], 5 => true, 6 => true
This is probably why the code doesn't support that.
-Steve
