Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] multitoken

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-13 19:15:20

> -----Original Message-----
> Edward Diener
> Why not have the parameter as:
> 
> "--first=11,12"
> 
> instead of trying to create more than one parameter with the same 
> parameter name.
> 
> Personally because of the type of solution I suggested, which is 
> probably the way most uses of such a multi-value value 
> parameter would 
> look like, with possibly a different separator than a comma, I do not 
> think a parameter library should have to cater to the same parameter 
> name more than once on the command line.

What about parameters like -I for gcc? Utilities can add -I's to the
command line. It would be an added headache to synchronize all these
tools to eventually come up with a -I arg1,arg2,...