[Structuredtext-develop] option lists

[Alan J. <ja...@po...>]

I don't see the value in the "dashes are implicit" behavior.  It loses
the ability to document non-GNU-style option lists.  What does it gain?

We don't want to spend complexity dealing with every weird option-parsing
behavior out there, but we don't have to.  Just leave the dashes in, and
people can use option lists no matter what style of parsing they use - or
what style of parsing is used by whatever they're documenting, it's not 
necessarily a choice that the document author can make.

There's a huge amount of existing software that uses single-dash long
options.  In the DOS world, using a single slash before both short and
long options is nearly universal.

Alan