On 2023-07-30 18:13, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2023-07-30T17:49:28+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> I agree that having a space between an option and its argument improves >> readability. However, between a positional argument and the ellipsis >> that marks that it can appear multiple times, I don't think the same >> reasoning applies; at least not so obviously. >> >> I'm referring to [file ...] vs [file...]. > > Oh. The point of this is that the arguments (operands in this case) > remain whitespace-delimited, where it might not be the case for a > repeatable single-letter option. > > foobar [-adX] [-v...] file ... > foobar [-h | --help] > > -v... Be more verbose. The option letter can be repeated, increasing > the verbosity level. > > "[-v ...]" would imply that only "-v -v -v" is allowed, instead of > "-vvv". > > I think this is a matter of achieving an accurate and unambiguous > synopsis grammar. Thanks; that kind of objective reasoning is what I wanted. Would you mind stating it in the commit message for posterity? :-) Cheers, Alex > > Regards, > Branden -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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