Re: Microproject idea: new OPT_* macros for PARSE_OPT_NONEG

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/07/2014 02:38 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> Currently in order to avoid --[no]-xxx form we have to resort to
>> declare full struct option. It'd be nice to have a set of OPT_* macros
>> with PARSE_OPT_NONEG set. Find and update all "struct option []"
>> declarations with the new macros (including ones that should never
>> accept --no- form, but do anyway).
>
> I added this to the list, with the following warning:
>
>     This is more a milliproject than a microproject
>
> because to me it feels considerably more involved than the other
> microprojects.  To  complete it, the student will have to understand at
> least part of the parse_options() API, which is more than a 15 minute
> job by itself.

I don't know the scope of these microprojects, but yes I think it'll
take a few hours for this. By the way, a bit more thought on the idea:
instead of making OPT_BOOL_NONEG() that sets NONEG, we could make
OPT_BOOL_FLAGS(..., NONEG), which is more flexible.
-- 
Duy
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