On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 11:16:08 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 4/11/13, Jonas Drewsen <[email protected]> wrote:
AFAIK most unix tools have two formats: long and short.
long:
dmd --foobar-dir=/somewhere/over/the/rainbow
short:
dmd -f /somewhere/over/the/rainbow
Most programs supports both. I think that would be the way to
go.
RDMD works on the assumption that its flags begin with -- and
DMD's
flags with -. There's no need to invent new short/long
switches, we
just need an equals sign to make it visually clear.
By "I think that would be the way to go" I did not necessary
refer to having both formats supported at the same time but
simply to use the standard way that people know.
Also using spaces might be a bad idea, you might end up doing
the
wrong thing if you call DMD incorrectly (e.g. a result of a
wrong
expansion in a shell script), for example:
$ dmd -of foo.d bar.d
Currently this is an error, the user forgot to specify the -of
switch.
If spaces were ok then this becomes the equivalent of:
$ dmd -offoo.d bar.d
I'd rather be safe than sorry and allow either -offoo or
-of=foo. It
will catch errors this way rather than do something unexpected.
You may not like using spaces but it is a widespread standard and
I think deviating is not the way to go. Anyway - this is turning
into a bikeshed coloring discussion I guess :)
/Jonas
