Re: [Boost-users] program_options: documentation dead end

From: Bryan Green (bgreen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-18 14:44:56

Vladimir Prus writes:
> 
> Speaking about -v -v -v, there's no stock way to achieve that. However, the
> provided interfaces seem to make it possible:
> 
>         1. Derive from value_semantics.
> 
>         2. Define the 'parse' method to add one to already stored value.

Thanks for the suggestion - I will give it a try!

> If you're volunteering, you're most welcome.

Well, I'd really like to be able to get the functionality of GNU
getopt_long's 'optional_argument' feature.  Do you have any sense of the
feasability of that?  If it seems feasable, I might be able to take a crack
at it.

-Bryan