From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T07:31:15+09:00
Subject: Re: optparse


Robert Klemme wrote:
> "Glenn Parker" <glenn.parker@comcast.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:41E59B7C.5050100@comcast.net...
> > Charles Mills wrote:
> >>
> >> Any idea about the first question?  Seems like you can only do
"--word
> >> arg" or "-c arg", not "-word arg".
> >
> > I think that's the style you get.  A double hypen is always
followed by a
> > long option name.  A single hyphen is always followed by a
one-letter
> > option flag.
>
> I'm not 100% sure but that might even be POSIX standard.  Anyway,
IMHO it's
> a good convention to follow.
>
Agreed. I am trying to mimic a few of gcc's command line options and
'-include file' is one of them.  Looking at gcc's man page, they
certainly don't follow the double hyphen convention :(

-Charlie