Re: cmd line stuff (was: CVS update: ...)

> Good. It should also, then, be okay to require that all
> options appear after the subcommand name. Viz.:
>
> svn <subcommand> [ <option> ... ] [ <arg> ...]
>
> Yes?

NO. There is an existing standard command processing interface. It is called
getopts(). It specifically (and by design) does *not* require that options
appear before arguments.

The existing standard may be stupid, but it is widely well understood and it
isn't ugly. Unless there is a really *really* compelling reason to discard
it, don't do so.

It took fifteen bloody years to *regularize* the UNIX command interface!

shap
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006