Re: [PATCH 5/7] parse-opt: fake short strings for callers to believe in.

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Jun 24, 2008, 19:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20080624192634.GA9189@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806241019370.2926@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:20:28PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
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> > If we begin to parse -abc and that the parser knew about -a and -b, it
> > will fake a -c switch for the caller to deal with.
> > 
> > Of course in the case of -acb (supposing -c is not taking an argument) the
> > caller will have to be especially clever to do the same thing. We could
> > think about exposing an API to do so if it's really needed, but oh well...
> 
> Well, if the other parser is _also_ parse_options() (ie you just cascade 
> them incrementally in a loop), then the other parser should get it right 
> automatically. No?

  Exactly. There are minor glitches wrt the help generation to deal
with, but for pure parsing issues yes, it will work.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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