Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Re: defines for geant

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 11:09, Eric Bezault wrote:
> Sven Ehrke wrote:
> > 
> > I could change this of course if most of you would prefer the --define syntax.
> > Just let me know.
> 
> Can't they both be supported: long or short option name?

Yep, short options are also allowed. But for short options the '=' is
disallowed. Some apps take accept the value just with a space, but
personaly I think it is cleaner to allow only long options a value and
let short options server for boolean flags. Dunno what the specs say
here exactly.

IMO should every short option have a long option pendant, if only for
self documentation purposes. Whereas long options need not have short
option pendants.

If I see a usage listing like:
-v, --verbose ... some explanation

I don't even need to look at the right hand for an explanation. The long
option tells me all I need, plus it tells me what shorthand I can use.
If I only see '-v' without the explanation, I could only guess what it
means (version, verbose, volatile, ... :)



Andreas