From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-16 02:25:38
Hi Leo,
> The exception is where an incorrect argument to an option has been
> supplied
>
> e.g.
> --some_arg "abc"
> where
> --some_arg 0.6
> is expected.
>
> The error message is annoyingly non-descript and it can be difficult to
> figure out which particular optional argument has been mis-specified.
I've committed a change which cause the error message to look like:
error: in option 'compression': invalid option value 'foo'
what do you think? Then only problem is the case where an option has a short
version: if you run
./first -c foo
then the error message will be exactly the same, which requires the user to
mantally link "-c" to "compression". Do you think it's a problem?
Thanks for bringing up this issue!
- Volodya