Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?

this is a DMR anecdote? On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:32 PM Larry McVoy &lt;lm(a)mcvoy.com&gt; wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +1000, Noel Hunt wrote: > > I'm surprised why anyone would bother with these routines > > anymore, given the startling simplicity of Plan9's arg(3). > > One stands in awe of such simplicity. I believe it was > > William Cheswick who designed it, but I may be wrong. > > It's nice but I like long opts. The getopt in BK (and now in L) > looks like this and produces its own help (which does miss the > short opts, my bad, I could fix that). Look at the default in > the switch: > > int > main(int ac, string av[]) > { > string c; > string lopts[] = { > "bigy:", > "date-split", > "exif", > "exif-hover", > "force", > "index:", > "names", > "nav", > "parallel:", > "quiet", > "regen", > "reverse", > "sharpen", > "slide:", > "thumbnails", > "title:", > "ysize:", > }; > > while (c = getopt(av, "fj:", lopts)) { > switch (c) { > case "bigy": bigy = (int)optarg; break; > case "date-split": dates = 1; break; > case "exif": exif = 1; break; > case "exif-hover": exif_hover = 1; break; > case "f": > case "force": > case "regen": > force = 1; break; > case "index": indexf = optarg; break; > case "j": > case "parallel": parallel = (int)optarg; break; > case "quiet": quiet = 1; break; > case "names": names = 1; break; > case "nav": nav = 1; break; > case "reverse": reverse = 1; break; > case "sharpen": sharpen = 1; break; > case "slide": slidef = optarg; break; > case "title": title = optarg; break; > case "thumbnails": thumbnails = 1; break; > case "ysize": ysize = (int)optarg; break; > default: > printf("Usage: photos.l"); > foreach(c in lopts) { > if (c =~ /(.*):/) { > printf(" --%s=<val>", $1); > } else { > printf(" --%s", c); > } > } > printf("\n"); > return(0); > } > } >