obsolete D libraries/modules

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/31/13 4:37 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 01/09/13 03:11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Haven't seen Tango's arguments parser, but it's a given getopt can be
>> improved in any number of ways. Yet the way I see it, with command line
>> parsing, the margin between a good enough argument parser and a terrific
>> one is razor thin. One parses arguments by definition once in every
>> program, and things like checking against limits and constraints across
>> multiple arguments can be easily done after basic parsing.
>>
>
> The Python Standard Library's argparse module
> <http://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html> would be a good model
> to base an improved option parsing module on.  I've used it a lot in
> Python and it's very useful.
>
> Peter

I remember sitting next to Kirk McDonald at the D conference in 2007 as 
he was showing me Python's argparse. I personally found pretty much any 
example we could think of more verbose and uglier than std.getopt.


Andrei