From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-05-12T00:13:27+09:00
Subject: Re: options parsing: required and conflict

Hi,

At Wed, 11 May 2005 20:47:27 +0900,
Glenn Parker wrote in [ruby-talk:142164]:
> I don't think OptionParse has any way to express "dependencies" between 
> options, and that's a good thing.  Given the generality of the problem, 
> there is no way it could do a better job than you would using straight 
> ruby code.

I'd had similar idea in the early days, but abandoned it soon.
As those relations could come complicated easily, it didn't
feel worth to design/learn a such "mini-language" again.  We
have already the powerful enough language.

-- 
Nobu Nakada