23 Aug
2006
23 Aug
'06
8:47 a.m.
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
On 8/17/06, Oleg Abrosimov <beholder@gorodok.net> wrote:
Hello Julio,
First of all, I want to thank you and your mentor for the new great library. I've started to read it's docs from top to bottom and I have a few comments till now:
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5) the argument member function is non-intuitive. it is a noun but should be a verb like add_argument. The name proposed is even more verbose than current one, it leads to the next suggestion: use 'operator<<' to append arguments to command line object.
Agreed. I'd rather call it 'add'. And maybe also provide operator<<. Could the operator make things clearer?
cl.add("foo").add("bar").add(4); cl << "foo" << "bar" << 4;
FWIW, +1 for "add_argument". // Johan