On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:55:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > 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. What is that? > > 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? No. :-) Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html