getopt & single-letter options with parameters

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/08/2010 12:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:i3kpsi$rod$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> ./prog -ofilename
>
> That being allowed at all kind of bugs me. I realize this probably isn't a
> particularly common problem in practice, but suppose you have:
>
> -o<filename>
> -of
>
> And the user uses "-o" with a file named "f":
>
> theapp -of  // Do what now?
>
> Or,
>
> -o<filename>
> -of<filename>
>
> theapp -ofabc  // "-o fabc" or "-of abc"?
>
> The whole possibility kinda makes me nervous.

Short options with parameters don't accept bundling, so the problem 
never shows itself.

Andrei