From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T03:08:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Piping data in on the command line


On Jul 11, 2008, at 10:59 AM, James Coglan wrote:

>
> Thank you both. If anyone is the least bit interested I'm writing  
> myself yet
> another commandline option parser:
>
> http://github.com/jcoglan/oyster
>
> It's inspired by trollop, but it has some more option types and is  
> more
> easily extensible, automates a few extra things (like recognizing
> --no-verbose if you've got a --verbose option for example) and it  
> generates
> slightly nicer (more man-page-like) help text.


you may be interested in

  http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-2.8.1/README

  http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-2.8.1/samples/

gem install main


the whole concept is to obviate the notion of ever parsing options

cheers.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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