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Re: [PATCH] Add named initializers to argp/argp-parse.c
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:35:12PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > [ ... snip patch fragment ... ]
> >
>
> I consider this *much* worse then what we have now.
>
> The arrays for arg and getopt have a well-defined order of the elements.
> Nobody can change it. Listing the options in this tabular form is not
> adding any maintenance burden. And it is much more readable. Just
> compare the effort to search for an existing entry, e.g., when adding a
> new one.
>
The preference is clearly _not_ to make patches like I've done, so this
one will be the first and last of its kind.
Art Haas
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