From: Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T00:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about GetoptLong


Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

>Consuming all the options so they are out of the way is a feature
>of the Getopt utils that I have seen, it means you can just use
>ARGF and friends to plough through the supplied files.
>
It certainly makes sense for it to eat the options it understands, but I 
don't see any reason why it should (always) remove options it doesn't 
understand and provide no way of getting the option back for later 
processing.

>So, I'm suggesting "have 'eat the options' as an on/off feature".
>
That's certainly a start.  :>
That, plus the exception that GetoptLong throws (I think the fact that 
it raises exceptions should be optional as well) should contain an 
attribute with the option that it choked on.