From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-12-23T00:55:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 25045-25260

Hi,

At Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:28:15 +0900,
Austin Ziegler wrote in [ruby-talk:124301]:
> > [ruby-dev:25048] about optparse specification
> >   Minero Aoki claimed that optparse should not handle -L when --line
> >   is given. It appears that anyone is not interested in this issue,
> >   since there is no reply so far.
> 
> Can you explain this a bit? If I do this:
> 
>   ARGV.options do |opts|
>     opts.on('-L', '--line', ...) { |xx| ... }
>   end
> 
> Then it should. However, IMO optparse should NOT autovivify -L if I
> specify:
> 
>   ARGV.options do |opts|
>     opts.on('--line', ...) { |xx| ... }
>   end
> 
> Or is this something else entirely?

Yes, and I'd changed the behavior as you and Aoki claimed.

-- 
Nobu Nakada