Arg decoding with a template?

[Quinn Dunkan]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:25:26 +0100, Dale Strickland-Clark
<dale at riverhall.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote:
>I guess what I had in mind was a simple but effective equivelent that I used
>to use with BCPL. A function called rdargs, which I think also became part of
>AmigaDOS
>
>I've just had a quick hunt with Google and I can't find a definition for it
>anywhere.
>
>I'll probably end up using getopt just because I don't have time to do a
>proper job right now.

Just out of curiousity, what's your idea of an ideal arg parsing function?
And if it's supposed to be "simple" why would it take so much time to do a
proper job?