argument parsing into structure

[Jesse Phillips]

On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 14:58:08 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 09:40:06 UTC, JN wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 05:38:32 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
>> wrote:
>>> Sometimes a good API isn't the right answer. I like getopt as 
>>> it is but I wanted a little different control. So I wrote up 
>>> an article on my work around.
>>>
>>> https://dev.to/jessekphillips/argument-parsing-into-structure-4p4n
>>>
>>> I have another technique for sub commands I should write 
>>> about too.
>>
>> http://code.dlang.org/packages/argsd
>
> I think we are several having written alternative getopt() 
> systems.
> I made one too last year, it allows to write tools very nicely.
> Recent example for a device flasher:

The thing is, I didn't write an alternative, mine utilizes getopt 
which was the point of the article. I could build out new 
functionality onto a standard API which didn't support it. It 
isn't as robust as it could be.