Re: [Chicken-users] Bug with #:optional in args egg?

[Vasilij Schneidermann]

Hello Diego,

I'm not sure whether this is a bug and fixing it is desired.  If
changed, it would affect existing programs using the args egg that would
no longer work in the old way.  Also, there are programs that do
argument parsing this way, albeit not many and typically only for a few
select arguments, like mysql for passwords (typing a space between -p
and the argument made the password check fail) and compilers (for -L and
alike).

I've switched to the getopt-long egg for this reason.  While it doesn't
do as much magic and takes more effort to understand, the command line
interfaces created with it feel completely like proper GNU programs.

Cheers
Vasilij