On 2013-09-02 07:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
If we had a nice list of getopt's quirks that should arguably be fixed, then we
can look at creating a getOpt function with the improved behavior, but I think
that that's very different from actually coming up with a new API, which is
what would be required for some of the changes that some people want (like
automatically generating --help), and that's what I think would be quite
difficult to do cleanly. What we have is very close to ideal IMHO. It just needs
a few tweaks.
I don't see why the API needs to be changed to support automatically
generating help messages. Extended yes, but not changed.
This is a simple idea:
uint timeout;
getopt(args, "timeout|t", &timeout).help("Set the timeout");
This interface assumes you can call "getopt" multiple times and call
"getopt" once per flag.
Alternatively pass in some form of options struct or similar:
struct Options
{
string help;
}
auto options = Options("Set the timeout");
uint timeout;
getopt(args, "timeout|t", &timeout, options);
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/Jacob Carlborg
