Re: Handling getopt for option without optional argument value

[Dennis Williamson]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 1:43 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

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> The "-xyz to -x -y -z" unrolling that getopt does is fundamentally
> incompatible with the -findopts option style.  There's no way to tell
> whether -bar is meant to be one option, or three options.
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The only way this could be handled would be to check for long option
matches first then unroll the ones that didn't have matches. Still prone to
ambiguities, errors and confusion.

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