# The following was supposedly scribed by # imacat # on Friday 17 June 2005 06:46 pm:
> (I started to laugh at Johan's "Getopt::Personal::EWilhelm"), Me too! > Aristotle and I even figured out a simple > solution to Eric's problem. We have proved that Getopt::Long is not > "unpredictable". It is flexable to solve Eric's major problem. Yes and No. We'll see. > Or maybe everybody here was doing wrong. Should we just say, > "go ahead, make your day", without even ... No, this was (and is) a good discussion. I've definitely learned that I need to work on the problem more, and write my ideas more clearly before I try to seek advice. I just thought I could ask for a wee suggestion about the name before it was done, but now it's clear to me that I need to discover more about the problem that I'm trying to solve. I'm sure there's a lot of misunderstanding of what I'm after. I don't quite know myself, which is the main reason that I've not discussed the module much until now. Maybe I'm crazy. I dunno. I had decided to take a step backward and look at option processing, why it is the way it is, etc. Part of this process involves reading Getopt::Long. Anyway, did you ever look at a thing and think you've seen something that's either completely new or completely crazy? Of course, if it is really new, people will call you crazy. But, then again they'll do that even if your crazy! Oh well. I'll call it crazy from now until I come up with something better or it goes away. Writing code sure beats hanging out in a straightjacket, so I guess I'll be writing code. In any case, if anybody wants to comment or suggest while I'm working on it, I'll be posting to this page as things progress: http://scratchcomputing.com/developers/Getopt-Crazy/ I'll probably go back to working on Getopt::Helpful for a few days to try to figure out why this is better than what I was doing (I'm guessing it mostly has to do with loading a config file.) Don't worry, I'm not planning to put Getopt::Helpful (or Getopt::Crazy) on CPAN for a while yet. They're both still sort of experiments. Thanks, Eric -- "It works better if you plug it in!" --Sattinger's Law --------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------
