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Re: Microproject idea: new OPT_* macros for PARSE_OPT_NONEG

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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Mar 7, 2014, 07:39 UTC
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On 03/07/2014 02:38 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> Currently in order to avoid --[no]-xxx form we have to resort to
> declare full struct option. It'd be nice to have a set of OPT_* macros
> with PARSE_OPT_NONEG set. Find and update all "struct option []"
> declarations with the new macros (including ones that should never
> accept --no- form, but do anyway).
I added this to the list, with the following warning:
    This is more a milliproject than a microproject

because to me it feels considerably more involved than the other microprojects. To complete it, the student will have to understand at least part of the parse_options() API, which is more than a 15 minute job by itself.

Thanks, Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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  1. Duy NguyenMar 7, 2014
  2. Michael HaggertyMar 7, 2014
  3. Duy NguyenMar 7, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2014
  5. Duy NguyenMar 12, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2014
  7. Duy NguyenMar 13, 2014

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