Library for handling GNU parameters

[François Pinard]

[Peter Hansen]

> The standard library module getopt can do that, at least for the sort
> of example you show, and I suspect the newer standard library module
> optparse could also handle it (but haven't tried myself).

I think I read that `optparse' is not going to handle optional arguments
that we find in some commands, and which GNU `getopt' (and also the old
standard `getopt', if I remember well) do handle.  As this is a design
choice for `optparse', it might never fully replace `getopt'.

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