Treat negative numbers and dashes as values

harthur / nomnom

Option parser for node with generated usage and commands

MIT License

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Open eush77 opened 10 years ago

eush77 commented 10 years ago

Why is it a good idea?

- is a special argument across multiple Unix commands and usually stands for stdin (echo hello |cat - /another/file);
negative numbers are not usually expected to behave as options, but rather as values, this is also sort of a standard (echo -e 'hello\nworld' |head -1);
I doubt there exists a single program which defines an option with spaces in it.

This patch is a superset of #38.

jpb commented 9 years ago

@eush77 what is the stats of this? I'm interested in using - to denote "read from stdin"

eush77 commented 9 years ago

I rebased and squashed my changes into a single commit.

@harthur Is it ready to merge?