From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T05:46:04+09:00
Subject: Re: OptionParser question

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:02:21PM +0900, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
> opt.parse! returns the remaining non-option arguments (which is in fact
> just ARGV at this stage, with options removed), or nil upon failure. This
> is propagated to the return value of ARGV.options. A common idiom seems to
> be:
> 
>   ARGV.options do |opt|
>     ...
>     ...
>     opt.parse!
>   end or exit 1
>   #   ^^^^^^^^^

I might use this. The downside here is that one doesn't know which option
failed so it's hard to give a more specific error message. Perhaps the author
will address this issue in due time.

Thanks!

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com