On 2008 Jul 2, at 6:40, Isaac Dupree wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On of the points of getopt is that -fFLAGS and -f FLAGS both work without any extra code. Standard getopt doesn't do optional arguments at all; GNU getopt handles -vn, -v n, and -v -- or -v -x (for random options -v, -x, the former taking an optional argument; the latter two cases are recognized as argument omitted).
and we say cabal uses a getopt equivalent to this? Yet it doesn't work that way for me, in
We've apparently reinvented the situation that led to AT&T freeing the original getopt() code, I see :) People who roll their own getopt() clone usually miss the corner cases. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH