[getopt-sig] More about commands on the command line

[A.T. Hofkamp]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> Let's get Optik right for the common case and
> in the Python standard library and _then_ see
> what people want for nonstandard stuff.
>
> It's not like Optik becomes immutable if we put it
> into the standard library.

I know, but it not a matter of modifying, it is more a matter of restarting
from scratch. Also, once you have published a 'standard', it becomes extremely
difficult to modify the interface because it will break existing code.

Therefore, making sure that Optik is useful even for non-standard situations
now, saves a lot of head aches later.


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