Am I reading this wrong, or is std.getopt *really* this stupid?
Andrei Alexandrescu
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Sat Mar 24 21:24:28 UTC 2018
On 3/24/18 12:59 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:11:18PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> Anyhow. Right now the order of processing is the same as the lexical
>> order in which flags are passed to getopt. There may be use cases for
>> which that's the more desirable way to go about things, so if you
>> author a PR to change the order you'd need to build an argument on why
>> command-line order is better. FWIW the traditional POSIX doctrine
>> makes behavior of flags independent of their order, which would imply
>> the current choice is more natural.
>
> So what about making this configurable?
That'd be great. I'm thinking something like an option
std.getopt.config.commandLineOrder. Must be first option specified right
after arguments. Sounds good?
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