[getopt-sig] Looping versus object-oriented framework

[A.T. Hofkamp]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Greg Ward wrote:

> > I also think both approaches are not contradictionary with each other.
> > For the user they may seem contradictionary, but for us, programmers of the
> > option parsing module, the former is at the core of the object-oriented frame
> > work (someweher deep in the parser, we need to loop over the command-line,
> > exactly like the looping approach does).
>
> Absolutely!  It might still be possible to be all things to all
> people... ;-)

I think that is ESSENTIAL for a SIG.

If we are developing the standard Python option processing package, it should
work for every Python programmer in the world, preferably even those that today
do not dare using getopt.


Albert
-- 
Constructing a computer program is like writing a painting