On 2021-02-24 at 08:12:58 -0800, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I'm looking for a name for a group of options that, when one is specified, > all of them must be specified. > > For contrast, > > - radio buttons: a group of options where only one can be specified (mutually > exclusive) > - check boxes: a group of options that are independent of each other (any > number of > them may be specified) > > - ???: a group of options where, if one is specified, all must be specified > (mutually > inclusive) I've run across this before, and almost always end up incorporating one option or the other. For example, consider a program's output. By default, it goes to stdout, but the program also supports plain output, logging, and syslog. So instead of mutually inclusive (for lack of a better phrase right now) options: --output-disposition [logging|syslog|flatfile] --output-options [depends on --output-disposition] do this: --output-to-log logging-options --output-to-syslog syslog-options --output-to-plain-file plain-file-options aka three mutually *exclusive* options. > So far, I have come up with: > > - the Three Musketeers > - clique > - club > - best friends > - tight knit > - group > > Is there a name out there already to describe that concept? Codependent? Circularly dependent? Entangled? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
