Re: Argument parser

[Johan Rydberg]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> wrote:

: diff -x CVS -x '*~' foo bar
: 
: Normally, most commands assume that only the last specified option is 
: significant, so it might not be necessary to worry about this problem.

The argument parser should not care about this.  It should just
pass the information along to the user-defined parser function,
and let it decide what to do.  This should not be very hard to
implement, with what I've seen of the discussion.

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