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Re: Arg decoding with a template?
by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk other posts by this author
Aug 3 2001 6:49PM messages near this date

Re: Arg decoding with a template? | Re: Arg decoding with a template?

02 Aug 2001 19:37:16 -0400, David Bolen <db3l@[...].com>  pisze:

>  Of course, the negative consequence is the inability for such an
>  application to take normal (non-optional) arguments that happen to
>  start with an option character, or the option parsing has to provide a
>  way to quote such an occurrence.

The standard for this already exists in the GNU world: "--" means
that all following arguments are non-options.

Trying to disambiguate this by disallowing options after non-options
wouldn't work anyway if the first non-option starts with "-".

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