On 08/08/2010 04:02 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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On 08/08/2010 12:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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./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"?
The long form with parameters accepts "--name=value" and "--name value"
but not "--namevalue".
Andrei
