Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2011-07-17 12:02, Mike Wey wrote: > >I think you generally want long arguments like "timeout" to start with > >"--" and the one character ones like "t" to start with "-". > > > >Also with "--timeout5" the 5 might be seen as part of the flag and > >shouldn't be allowed. > > Don't know why anyone would want to be able to the option and then > the argument without a space.
Yeah. It's only useful for short options. Jens
