From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-06-05T02:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26128-26222 (Re: ropt/optparse)

> > My first thought is that the optparse API is much nicer -- it could be
> > simplified slightly without losing anything, but ropt looks more
> > difficult, even if it is more succinct.
> >
> > Ari
> 
> I concur.  Folks would do well to take a look at Perl's Getopt::Std and
> Getopt::Long (or elsewhere) to see how they do things instead of
> reinventing a very old wheel.  And no, Ruby's GetoptLong is not where
> it should be.

?  perl's getopt::Std looks pretty much like what ropt looks like... no?

http://perldoc.perl.org/Getopt/Std.html