mathew <meta / pobox.com> wrote in news:wjosf.9901$9e.8623 @tornado.texas.rr.com: > Eric J. Roode wrote: >> GetoptLong suffers from being "the same old Getopt". > > Well, what do you expect from an options parser? It's pretty much a > solved problem, and using the standard getopt algorithms has the > advantage that users know what to expect. Well... that's not *bad*, but I guess I had expected something a bit more ruby-like. Whatever that means. :-) -- Eric `$=`;$_=\%!;($_)=/(.)/;$==++$|;($.,$/,$,,$\,$",$;,$^,$#,$~,$*,$:,@%)=( $!=~/(.)(.).(.)(.)(.)(.)..(.)(.)(.)..(.)......(.)/,$"),$=++;$.++;$.++; $_++;$_++;($_,$\,$,)=($~.$"."$;$/$%[$?]$_$\$,$:$%[$?]",$"&$~,$#,);$,++ ;$,++;$^|=$";`$_$\$,$/$:$;$~$*$%[$?]$.$~$*${#}$%[$?]$;$\$"$^$~$*.>&$=`