From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:20:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] parse-opt: fake short strings for callers to believe in. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1214298732-6247-6-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > 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? Linus