Re: WANTED: POSIX compatible getopt

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:00:01 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:

> > Have you considered just writing a little C code to bind the C
> > library's getopt?  
>
> It trivial to implement getopt_long in LUA. I did it for AWK some time
> ago, ~150 lines of code. Also the problem with C code is that
> getopt_long(3) is not available on Solaris/HP-UX and some
> others. getopt_long(3) is not portable.

Surely getopt_long is not POSIX, however?  I'm confused about your
requirements, here.

Also: Lua is not an acronym, and thus should be capitalised as a
proper-noun :)
-- 
B.