[boost] Re: [program_options] Deprecating 'implicit' and 'multitoken' options

From: Neal Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-28 12:36:58

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> --someoption -1

IMHO, it is absolutely required that there be a method to give negative
numbers as values without confusing them for options.  I don't see the
"implicit" behaviour as being a high priority, as long as boolean switch
behaviour without values is available.  That is, you want to support

--verbose

Where verbose is a boolean switch that does not take an optional value.