Am I reading this wrong, or is std.getopt *really* this stupid?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 01:43:10PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 23 March 2018 at 23:29:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > I just ran into this seemingly small problem:
> 
> The way I'd do this is to only use getopt to build the lists, then
> actually process them externally. (lol adding another loop)
> 
> string[] searchPaths;
> string[] files;
> 
> getopt(args,
>   "l", &files,
>   "I", &searchPaths
> );
> 
> foreach(file; files)
>   openFile(file);
> 
> 
> then it is clear what order your operations are done in anyway, and
> you have a chance to perhaps report bad syntax before actually doing
> any real work.
> 
> Wouldn't it be weird for example if
> 
> $ cat foo.d --help
> 
> spat out the contents followed by the help?

Touche.  This uglifies the code a bit, but meh. It's just main(), no
biggie.


T

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