"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 08/08/2010 12:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> >>> ./prog -ofilename >> >> That being allowed at all kind of bugs me. I realize this probably isn't >> a >> particularly common problem in practice, but suppose you have: >> >> -o<filename> >> -of >> >> And the user uses "-o" with a file named "f": >> >> theapp -of // Do what now? >> >> Or, >> >> -o<filename> >> -of<filename> >> >> theapp -ofabc // "-o fabc" or "-of abc"? >> >> The whole possibility kinda makes me nervous. > > Short options with parameters don't accept bundling, so the problem never > shows itself. >
This then: --xy<filename> --xyz<filename> theapp --xyzabc // "--xy zabc" or "-xyz abc"?
