Re: parse-options does not recognize "unspecified" behavior

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:37:03PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> A much easier solution would be to update OPT_VERBOSE() to understand
> that negative values are "unspecified", and then --verbose would
> (pseudocode):
> 
>     if (value < 0)
>         value = 0
>     value++;
> 
> and --no-verbose would:
> 
>     value = 0
> 
> That should be compatible with existing clients of OPT__VERBOSE()
> which initialize the value to 0, and should satisfy Pranit's case; he
> can initialize it to -1, and if it is still -1 when option parsing is
> done, then he knows that neither --verbose nor --no-verbose was seen.

Yes, that makes much more sense to me. Thanks for the back-story.

-Peff
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