command line arguments

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Fri Feb 24 12:24:00 GMT 2006


Hi -

hunt wrote:
> [...]
> Why not do things the standard way and just pass all the args in as
> strings? 

Because then they cannot substitute for numeric literals, such as
parameters to probe point functors, histogram parameters.

> Encoding the type in the args makes the command line very inflexible. 
> No way to do variable args. No way to do standard options, etc. 

How so?  If you want to look at them as strings, only refer to
@1....@NNN.


- FChE



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