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Comments: In-reply-to Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces [ meta
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Warner Losh writes:
> The large number of times I've had to replace inline code like you've
> quoted with
> getopt to fix the irregularities in command line parsing suggests that we
> differ on
> this viewpoint.

Fine by me.  Never hurts to know what other people consider best practices.