Re: Command line help options
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Nov 29, 2010
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One thing about cmd_parse is that it tries to do things in a standard way. I would ask two questions to this post:
1. Why do you not want to allow the user to see a list of options available to send to your program and why would you not want to use the standard/common help parameters of -h, -? or --help?
2. Why do you not want to indicate to your users which options are required vs. optional?
With standards come instant usability. It shouldn't be removed w/o a very good reason, IMHO. Making your program different than every other program does not provide any benefit, only downfall. If you want your command line parsing to be non-standard, I would recommend implementing your own command line parser.
Jeremy