Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I'm trying to do with Getopt::Modern here is to establish some > conventions which allow this to happen internally. This saves the > author some code and gives the user a guaranteed consistent experience > with multiple programs. > > The debate on the usefullness of '--no-' appears to say it's useful. > > The debate on its behavior says that there are historical (and > convenience) reasons to keep its evaluation in command-line order. > > What I'll probably end-up with is something like '--un-' performing the > above task of initializing internal values.
I'd strongly suggest that if you really break the long standing conventions, even for perfectly valid reasons!, please select a distinctive form so users know what to expect. In an earlier message I referred to the former GNU convention of starting the (then new style of) command line options with a "+" instead of a minus. -- Johan
