obsolete D libraries/modules

[Dmitry Olshansky]

02-Sep-2013 09:32, H. S. Teoh пишет:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 07:29:42PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 31, 2013 19:18:11 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> std.getopt is definitely lacking some nice-to-have features (like
>> automatically generating --help from the options), but for the most
>> part, I don't think that it can be improved much without seriously
>> complicating it. I think that it's about at the limit of what can be
>> done and still have it be simple, and it works really well for the
>> most part, so if we haven't hit the sweet spot, we're at least close.
>> I've toyed with trying to figure out how to improve it, but I think
>> that doing so cleanly would be very hard.
>
> I've had several people complain to me about std.getopt not
> understanding / supporting "standard" command-line syntax. Like '-c5'
> vs. '-c 5'. I've also experienced some quirks in how it handles option
> parsing, such as being unable to distinguish between '-w' and '--water'
> where both are distinct options (the use case is that multiple options
> begin with 'w', but one is more common than the others so '-w' is
> desirable as a shorthand, but currently std.getopt support for this is
> sketchy and unreliable).
>

Last time I tried (about a year or so ago) I was frustrated with how 
rigid and strange it was.
In the end I just rolled back to some hacks like to!int(args[1]) and so 
on. At least that was under my control.



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Dmitry Olshansky