Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 23:28:03 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <20020507232803.GB20078@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <p0511173fb8fe1074d26d@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020507184519.GB28857@FreeBSD.ORG> <XFMail.20020507150637.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020507191959.GA26441@FreeBSD.ORG> <p0511173fb8fe1074d26d@[128.113.24.47]>
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> >Various points taken. Tell me the preferred way to handle
> >options which may or may not take arguments, and I'll give
> >it my best shot. I'd assume it's to do something like
> >
> >case 'i':
> > if (*argv[optind+1] != '-') {
> > take the option from argv[optind++];
> > } else
> > set a binary flag for -i, and don't set the extension.
> > break;
> >
> >Does that seem right?
>
> We do not want options which "may or may not take arguments".
> The standards only allow those as concessions to older code
> which was written that way. I am pretty sure all "new code"
> has options such that they either always take an argument,
> or they never take an argument.
That's the concern, weening stubborn people off their Perl
dependencies. If we can at least agree to always use a backup
extension, even if it's nil, and move from perl-i to sed-i in
*OUR* source tree, then the code I've committed (and the nil
handling code I'm about to commit) is worthwhile, as it takes
away another reason for people to say "we *NEED* Perl". We
don't, we just need more people willing to try to make more
minimalist tools do their job completely.
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