[getopt-sig] The bake-off

[Greg Ward]

On 30 May 2002, rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com said:
> if parser behaved like a list, then you could have
> 
> 	parser.append(Option("-n", type="int", dest="num_things"))
> 
> which strikes me as not clunky and still general.

If you want OptionParser to implement the sequence interface, submit a
patch.  I'm +0 on the idea, so I'd probably accept a well-written patch,
but I'm unlikely to bother implementing it myself.

        Greg
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