Re: [PATCH v13 2/6] test-parse-options: print quiet as integer

> Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Current implementation of parse-options.c treats OPT__QUIET() as integer
>> and not boolean and thus it is more appropriate to print it as integer
>> to avoid confusion.
>
> There is no "confusion" factor involved, as we do not use native
> "boolean" type in our C code.  IIUC, the reason why we want to do
> this is because we may want to see how it would affect the value of
> the underlying variable to give multiple --quiet options from the
> command line, which is a policy issue (i.e. we want to allow
> commands to react to multiple quiet options differently), not an
> implementation one (i.e. "current implementation happens to use
> integer").
>
>         We would want to see how multiple --quiet options affect the
>         value of the underlying variable (we may want "--quiet --quiet"
>         to still be 1, or we may want to see the value incremented
>         to 2).  Show the value as integer to allow us to inspect it.
>
> perhaps?