Re: getopt & single-letter options with parameters

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/07/2010 10:08 PM, SK wrote:

It's by design in order to avoid confusion with parameterless options.
Your example works with either of these invocations:

./prog -ofilename
./prog -o=filename
./prog --o=filename

but not others.


Andrei

The prevailing convention is to allow whitespace in this case. Would you
reconsider?

Sure. A patch would actually help a lot.

Andrei