Arg decoding with a template?
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Thu Aug 2 19:37:16 EDT 2001
hjwidmaier at web.de (Hans-Joachim Widmaier) writes:
> Well, I did this long before I've heard of GNU and even before our
> BDFL started working on a new language called "Python." The C library
> getopt() just didn't do all I wanted (allow options after arguments
> [this is on thing I really dislike about python's getopt -- it doesn't
> allow that; (...)
Of course, the negative consequence is the inability for such an
application to take normal (non-optional) arguments that happen to
start with an option character, or the option parsing has to provide a
way to quote such an occurrence.
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