Re: [PATCH 0/9] argument parsing fixes and improvements

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] argument parsing fixes and improvements

Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:37:37 +0300

To: David Bremner, Daniel Kahn Gillmor

Cc: Notmuch Mail

From: Jani Nikula


On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Looking at the defaults from another angle, if we don't want the ability
> to set --foo=default explicitly, I still think passing ints as booleans
> to the argument parser and checking if a boolean is neither true nor
> false is the wrong thing to do. I'd also like to convert to stdbool
> more. But those should not be a reason to convert essentially boolean
> arguments to keyword arguments. I think we need a way to have the
> argument parser tell us if an argument was present or not.

id:20170930213239.15392-1-jani@nikula.org would make it easier to add,
say, a notmuch_bool_t *present field to notmuch_opt_desc_t that we could
set whenever we see the option and we want to know the difference.

BR,
Jani.
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