also sprach Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> [2008.11.20.1527 +0100]: > Why is this so complicated? Can't you just do_help from > should_do_help()? Yes, I could, but that would be in conflict with my understanding of the Law of Demeter. > The overall semantics seems strange anyway, though - it seems that > 'tg mail --help -r' will try to show help for '-r' instead of > 'mail'. True, but then we are parsing command lines. Would you be opposed to a getopt (POSIX) approach to normalising/parsing the command line? Cheers, -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxx> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems this space intentionally left occupied.
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