[getopt-sig] The bake-off

Harri Pasanen harri.pasanen@trema.com
Thu, 30 May 2002 17:38:43 +0200


On Thursday 30 May 2002 16:49, Greg Ward wrote:
> On 30 May 2002, rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com said:
> > My only nit with Optik (and a very small one at that)
> > is the dual syntax for adding options.  I'd rather just
> > see the normal Python list syntax and drop the
> > add_option method, but the latter seems entrenched.
> > (In fact, the reason I was turned off by Optik originally
> > was I didn't know about the list syntax and thought
> > the add_option was the only way to go.)
>
> D'ohh!  I originally liked using a list, but I've decided that I prefer
> add_option().  I suppose I will leave the list interface there but
> undocumented.  Anyone else care?
>

I'd say leave it in there, documented. =20

My second choice would be strip it out, undocumented features are evil.


-Harri