Long options and |libast::optget()| ... / was: Re: 2009/228 ls enhancements

[Roland Mainz]

James Carlson wrote:
> Glenn Fowler writes:
[snip]
> > a bonus is that ksh93 uses optget() to implement getopts
> > so shell scripts are not second class citizens w.r.t. long options
> > and since the options desc ription is one 0-terminated string
> > instead of a C-data-struct the description can be moved
> > freely between script<=>C-source implementations
> 
> Since this is going in ON, I think the implementor is free to choose
> among the getopt_* family and the ksh93 optget() functions as he sees
> fit. 

Erm... note that this is not ksh93 Glenn was thinking about - it's
|libast::optget()| which has this additional functionality...

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Roland

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