On 2014-08-28 14:04:27 +0200, Petr Jelinek wrote:
> On 28/08/14 13:20, Andres Freund wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Stuff I wondered about:
> >* How about making it --help=variables instead of --help-variables?
>
> -1, help is not a variable to be assigned imho
I don't think variable assignment is a good mental model for long
commandline arguments. And it's not like I'm the first to come up with
an extensible --help. Check e.g. gcc.
But anyway, I guess I've lost that argument.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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