std.getopt suggestion

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Tue Oct 4 18:32:19 PDT 2011


On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 20:28:30 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 10/4/11 7:51 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > Yeah I've never seen --abc used as -a -b -c before, it looks quite
> > strange to me. Is this common in unixland?
> 
> No, but bundling -abc as -a -b -c is quite common, particularly in older
> programs.

Though for whatever reason, it's not the default in std.getopt in spite of the 
fact that it's quite standard.

- Jonathan M Davis


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