Re: WANTED: POSIX compatible getopt

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

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:48:17 +0200
Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov@tut.by> wrote:

> Most applications written in C use system getopt(3) or getopt_long(3)
> and therefore follow these guidelines. These guidelines show how
> applications usually work, not only standardized `cat', `cut', `grep'
> etc. and I think apps written in Lua shell follow these rules too
> _by default_ just like all C application.

Not like all C applications.  Many do their own parsing.  And you
seemed to be suggesting earlier that programs that didn't follow these
guidelines were somehow not POSIX compliant.

> Unfortunately I don't see such module for Lua.

Things don't exist until somebody creates them.  As I said earlier, I
suggest you write a binding to BSD's long getopt implementation.  It
should be trivial.

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B.