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

[Brian H. <bri...@ac...>]

You have not updated your project have you.  StringListDef.java handles 
multiple occurrences of the same flag and places them in a List object.

Brian

Matthew Weigel wrote:

> 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.