On 5/14/16 10:29 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 16:17 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
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I showed a fellow programmer std.getopt. We were both on laptops. He
wanted to show me how good Python's argparse is and how D should
copy
it. By the end of the chat it was obvious argparse was much more
verbose
and less pleasant to use than getopt. Like you have to create an
object
(?!?!) to parse the command line and many other lines of nonsense.
"verbose", "less pleasant" and "nonsense" are hardly the right terms
unless the intention is to try to convince us using advocacy research.
Now that I've read your "getopt is a 1970s C solution..." comment I
realize this might be a simple misunderstanding related to the fact
you've never looked at D's std.getopt. It has nothing to do with C's
getopt. The closest ancestor is Perl's
http://perldoc.perl.org/Getopt/Long.html, but in D it's a lot better
because of strong typing. Pray please take a look and sorry for taking
your confusion for a semantic grenade. -- Andrei
