From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T01:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 25045-25260

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:56:12 +0900, Minero Aoki
<aamine@loveruby.net> wrote:
>>> [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:
[...]
> I said latter.  From ruby-dev:25048:
> 
>   ~ % cat t
>   require 'optparse'
>   parser = OptionParser.new
>   parser.on('--line') {
>     puts 'opt=--line'
>   }
>   parser.parse!
> 
>   ~ % ruby t -l
>   opt=--line
>   ~ % ruby t --l
>   opt=--line
>   ~ % ruby t -L
>   opt=--line
>   ~ % ruby t --L
>   opt=--line
> 
> But, thanks for nobu, it seems that optparse.rb was modified after
> [ruby-dev:25048] was posted.  We get following result now:

Excellent!

If one wants something similar to this, couldn't one do:

  require 'optparse'

  parser = Option.parser.new
  parser.on('--l[ine]') { puts 'opt=--l[ine]' }
  parser.parse!

?

Thanks muchly,
-austin
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