Re: [Jargp-general] Is there anyone out there?

[Matthew W. <un...@id...>]

Brian Hawkins wrote:

>
>> I was actually planning on implementing something like that, but 
>> behaving differently - more like "foo -m arg1 -m arg2 -m arg3" to 
>> generate an array of size three.
>>
>> I'd prefer to discuss which approach is better (or if supporting both 
>> is reasonable) first. 
>
>
> Not sure what you mean here.  The code currently in CVS supports 
> multiple flags.  Currently I can do "foo -m arg1 -m arg2 -m arg3", but 
> what I cannot do is "foo -m arg1 -m arg2 arg3 arg4".  That is until I 
> made my changes.  The code places the arguments in a List object.


I think what you're describing is "foo -a arg1 -b arg2 -c arg3...".  I'm 
talking about being able to specify the same control argument ("-m") 
multiple times, with multple value arguments, and getting it all 
collected into an array whose name is associated with the "-m" control 
argument.

To me, that seems more like typical use than "-m arg1 arg2 arg3", while 
also more readable.
-- 
 Matthew Weigel