Re: [naviserver-devel] ns_parseargs example

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On 5/28/05, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
> Am 28.05.2005 um 14:19 schrieb Stephen Deasey:
> >
> > ns_parseargs {{-eightbit flag} {-foo flag} args}
> >
> > How do you distinguish between -eightbit which is a boolean flag, and
> > -foo which is an option with a default string value of 'flag'?
>=20
> Here is how:
>=20
>      ns_parseargs {=10=10{{-eightbit flag}} {-foo flag} args}


Ouch!


> This is just a nested-list exercise. It is Tcl-natural and can become
> difficult to write with all those curly braces, but that's the price
> of the flexibility.

...

> > It will confuse people who read the code, don't you think?
>
> I do but I do not care.


I think you're optimising for the wrong thing... :-(