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Re: Stanford IDG internal Perl style



Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:

> Do you have some examples of complex usage of Getopt::Long::Descriptive
> by the way?  I had a stab at rewriting lintian's option parsing and for
> sometimes I cannot find the way to do it with G::L::Descriptive.

I don't... I don't think we've tried to do anything complicated.  In
particular, it doesn't look like it supports Getopt::Long's ability to
insert subs into the option parsing or otherwise discover the order in
which the options were given.

>> Oh, that's kind of annoying.  Although we conventionally ommitted the
>> Usage: for subsequent lines anyway and just said:
>> 
>>     Usage: lintian-info ...
>>            lintian-info --annotate
>>            lintian-info --tags ...

> That is the way I wanted to write it, but even "\n\t" is "two or more
> spaces" and gets translated to " " resulting in:

> Usage: lintian-info ... lintian-info --annotate [... and so on]

> i.e. one long unreadable line.

Oh, sorry, I misread.  Yes, indeed, that's quite annoying!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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