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Re: how optparse can go horribly wrong

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 26, 2009, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID
<fabb9a1e0909260644w781d3c3h4fca22e3b7d97768@mail.gmail.com>
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Heya,
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 03:51, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr> wrote:
> Doing this only to -m flag would break consistency. That said, I don't
> have any opinion in disallowing the sticked form for _all_ short
> options.

Perhaps instead disallow it for short options that do not take a one-symbol argument, that is -n4 makes a lot of sense to me, but -m"my commit message here" not so much.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. Shawn O. PearceSep 25, 2009
  2. Nicolas SebrechtSep 26, 2009
  3. Sverre RabbelierSep 26, 2009
  4. Shawn O. PearceSep 26, 2009
  5. Clemens BuchacherSep 28, 2009
  6. 1/2 do not mangle short options which take argumentsClemens Buchacher, Oct 1, 2009
  7. 2/2 allow mangling short options which take integer argumentsClemens Buchacher, Oct 1, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2009
  9. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  10. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  11. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009
  13. Clemens BuchacherOct 3, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2009
  15. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  16. Clemens BuchacherOct 2, 2009
  17. Paolo BonziniOct 2, 2009
  18. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  19. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009
  20. Jeff KingOct 2, 2009
  21. Johannes SchindelinOct 2, 2009

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