On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Jeff Shipley <jeffquipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Alexander Surma > <alexander.su...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> How about improving the flags-package - or somewhat merging optparse >> into flags (keeping the interface backwards-compatble). >> I assume that would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Surma > > From what I've read/heard so far, this sort of a change might not be > welcome in the flag package (which is designed to be simple). I have > put out a feeler in the golang-nuts mailing list to see if it would be > accepted. I was looking into it yesterday, and it seems like this sort > of change would be quite simple. If this change gets put into the flag > package, then I would gladly use the flag package for everything. >
It looks like there would have to be a strong argument for this to be added to the flag package, and I just can't come up with one, aside from legacy support (which is a rather weak argument). I've been thinking about it, and I'm actually inclined to simplify grep (and eventually sed). It seems completely unnecessary to support multiple -e arguments. The 9base man page doesn't say anything about grep supporting multiple -e arguments, it simply states that -e makes it easier to specify patterns that might confuse argument parsing.
