Hi,
Juerd wrote:
> This probably goes against everything a shell based platform wants,
> but would it be possible to give the program a sub-like signature?
I like that idea very much, but...
> signature (
> Rule $pattern,
> bool +$help :short('h'),
> Int +$verbose :short('v'),
> Str [EMAIL PROTECTED] = <->
> );
...this seems a bit ugly to me.
What do you say about that:
use Getopt::Auto;
run &main;
sub main (
Rule $pattern,
bool +$help :short("h"),
...
) {
...;
}
Getopt::Auto's run-subroutine would then use &main.signature (IIRC) to
parse @*ARGS, exactly as in your posting.
> Probably a macro can handle this, but does (will) Perl parse a
> signature-like argument list and hand the macro something it can use,
> or would this require source-filter like trickery?
With Perl providing &sub.signature, there won't be any need to use
macros or even source-filters :)
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