From: "(a slow loris with poison elbows)" <lorisx@...> (a slow loris with poison elbows)
Date: 2005-06-05T06:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26128-26222 (Re: ropt/optparse)

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> writes:
> For files with very few options, optparse requires too much typing.

I don't think so. It seems to me you can leave out a great quantity of
the optparse pooky if you want to keep things simple:


require 'optparse'
require 'ostruct'
opt = OpenStruct.new
p = OptionParser.new {|p|
  p.on('-c C')          {|o| opt.color = o}
  p.on('-i I', Integer) {|o| opt.int = o}
}.parse!
puts "color   is: #{opt.color}  (#{opt.color.class})"
puts "integer is: #{opt.int}    (#{opt.int.class})"


You could invoke it like:  myprogram -c blue -i 99

Maybe the problem is with optparse documentation. I started with the
comment in the code and kept chucking until I got to what is above.
At least it is better than Getoptlong.

-Loris