[PATCH] Add named initializers to argp/argp-parse.c

Art Haas ahaas@airmail.net
Wed Feb 19 00:41:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:35:12PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > [ ... snip patch fragment ... ]
> >  
> 
> I consider this *much* worse then what we have now.
> 
> The arrays for arg and getopt have a well-defined order of the elements.
>  Nobody can change it.  Listing the options in this tabular form is not
> adding any maintenance burden.  And it is much more readable.  Just
> compare the effort to search for an existing entry, e.g., when adding a
> new one.
> 

The preference is clearly _not_ to make patches like I've done, so this
one will be the first and last of its kind.

Art Haas

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