From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T07:21:25+09:00
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] GetoptLong and ARGV

Hello all,

This is in reference to an open bug [0] at the rubyforge tracker. Following 
will be two patches, one each against trunk and 1.8. The patches simply 
implement the code written and suggested by 7rans <transfire @nospam@ 
gmail.com>.

There are at leat two good reasons for the change:

1. It is arguably more 'correct' to leave ARGV unmodified. There may be a case 
where a developer needs access to the original ARGV after using GetoptLong.

2. It allows the developer to pass arbitrary arrays to GetoptLong for 
processing. A use case for this would be if the developer wanted to read one 
or more config files to set default values then override the defaults with 
options/arguments passed on the CLI.

Again, please note that the code herein was written by 7rans, and I am simply 
doing the 'physical labour'.

Thanks for consideration,
Darren Kirby

[0] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=426&atid=1698&func=detail&aid=11725

Patches forthcoming...
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