Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] multitoken

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-13 22:33:13

Sohail Somani wrote:
>> -----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,...

You are right about that. I think, then, you have to take this up with 
the creator of the program_options library.