From: timaki.st@...
Date: 2016-06-05T09:02:21+00:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:49643] [Ruby trunk Feature#12459] Add type coercion option to ARGV.getopts arguements.

Issue #12459 has been reported by Seiji Takahashi.

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Feature #12459: Add type coercion option to ARGV.getopts arguements.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12459

* Author: Seiji Takahashi
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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I suggest a little new feature to lib/optparse.rb.

When I created CLI tool I defined option parser with ARGV.getopts function like following.

~~~
ARGV.getopts('abc:', 'logopt, 'optwithval:val')
~~~

It was so easy and short to recognize what is declared as options, but I could't force a type of the values.
Maybe it looks unshapely, but I'd like to confirm the types like this:

~~~
ARGV.getopts('strval:(String)intval:(Integer)', 'logopt, 'optwithval:val(String)')
~~~

Normal OptParser has type coercion but extended function ARGV.getopts has no feature like this.
This difference is trivial but inconvenient.



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