Github user rmetzger commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/664#issuecomment-100917520 >>If this tool also supported positional arguments ... > >I also though about adding those, but decided against it, because args[n] is already a way of > accessing the arguments by their position ;) > But I'll add it so that users can also specify default values .. and we take care of the parsing. I'm not so sure about this anymore. Positional arguments would break a lot in the design of the `ParameterUtil`. For example the export to the web interface, the Configuration object or Properties.
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