Re: [boost] Re: Command line syntaxes

From: Lee Brown (lee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-22 03:38:53

On Monday 21 January 2002 21:27, you wrote:
> --- In boost_at_y..., Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_c...> wrote:
> > I think that in order to make progress with command line parsing
>
> library, Iit
>
> > would be usefull to discuss possible syntaxes and possible clashes
>
> between
>
> > them. I've written some initial implementation of the parsing
>
> proper which is
>
> > available at:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/Command Line
>
> Parsing/cmdline.cpp

This strikes me as being an excellent time to use policy classes.
Default to the recommended form but still let the user decide what convention 
to use without having to hack away at code you've written.

Then again maybe I'm an idiot. It wouldn't be the first time.

lee