[Ocaml-lib-devel] OptParse.Opt.set added

[Bardur A. <oca...@sc...>]

Hi all,

I've added a "set" function to the Opt module so that you
can now set the value of an option programmatically. This
can be quite useful if you want to provide e.g. three
distinct options where value of the third can be computed
from any other two. An example from network benchmarking
would be: 1) number of packets, 2) packet size, and 3)
total number of bytes to send. Instead of having to
declaring three more variables to hold the "filled-in"
values, you can just set the missing option's value directly
and proceed as normal.

Unfortunately it couldn't be implemented without a _tiny_
amount of breakage, but you will _only_ see this if you've
implemented your own option types... and even then you
only have to provide one more trivial closure for the
option definition. Since almost nobody is affected by this
change I decided to commit immediately.

The diff is attached.

Cheers,

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Bardur Arantsson
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