From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 19 6:20:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from abraham.chaosdev.org (chaosdev.org [194.17.41.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42B815171 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plundis@chaosdev.org) Received: from localhost (plundis@localhost) by abraham.chaosdev.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id PAA14451; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:17:44 +0200 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:17:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Per Lundberg To: Chris Costello Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: glibc In-Reply-To: <19990719080712.A15178@holly.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > What is the point of using GNU-getopt over the standard > getopt other than --foo-bar flags that everyone I know hates? Nothing. But I don't think they're as bad as you say, especially when you're new to a program and don't know the short options yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message