[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [help-gengetopt] accept option arguments (even in enum)
From: |
Papp Gyozo (VBuster) |
Subject: |
Re: [help-gengetopt] accept option arguments (even in enum) |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:04:47 +0200 |
Hi,
> > What do you think? gengetopt should enable symbols in enums or should we
> rephrase our idea? Please note that this option is multiple enum, so the
> real strength of this approach that custom mixed filter definitions can be
> described this way:
> >
> > --filter=+other,-missing
>
> well I think this would be feasible without any problem!
> My only concern is the literals used for the actual C enum values: + and
> - are not valid characters, so these characters should be translated
> in the C enum...
>
> something like
>
> enum { filter_MINUS_UNSPECIFIED, filter_PLUS_OK, ... }
>
> what do you think? Or do you have any other suggestion?
It would be ok. My first thought was to simply ignore special characters and
replace them with an underscore (_) however it would raise the risk of
ambiguity. MINUS , PLUS (and the others like QUOTE, EXCLAMATION?) would be ok.