On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Mauricio Gomes <mgpensar@gmail.com> wrote:

I am studying Boost Program Options library and I am curious, why was it choosen double dashes as the token to identify an option in the command line ?

Example:
my_program --help

Would not a single dash be enough and less verbose ?
What is the rationale behind that ?

Thanks,
--
Mauricio Gomes
"Think globally, act locally".

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