Charles P Wright wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering how people would feel about changing the generic command > line processing option from something like: > > -foo bar > > That sets the generic variable named foo to the value bar to something > along the following: > > -set foo=bar > > This would eliminate ambiguity in command line processing so that a > mistyped option is not silently ignored. > > Another thing that I've been thinking of is changing the command line > parsing to some sort of table driven parsing, so that it is easier to add > command line options without so much code. Right now option processing is > 834 lines of code, much of which is redundant. Does anyone have thoughts > on this? > > Charles > >
Charles, It looks like an acceptable alternative. We added to much flexibility by authorizing -foo bar. So your proposal is ok. For the command line parsing code, it grew with no re-factoring, leading to much redundant code. Again, your changes seems very necessary. Olivier. -- Olivier HP OpenCall Software http://www.hp.com/go/opencall/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sipp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sipp-users
