Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writable variables)

On 12/27/18 3:00 PM, John Naylor wrote:
> On 12/27/18, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> diff --git a/src/tools/gen_keywords.pl b/src/tools/gen_keywords.pl
>> + elsif ($arg =~ /^-o/)
>> + {
>> + $output_path = length($arg) > 2 ? substr($arg, 2) : shift @ARGV;
>> + }
>>
>> My perl-fu is not great, but it looks like this will accept arguments
>> like "-ofilename", which is a style I don't like at all. I'd rather
>> either insist on the filename being separate or write the switch like
>> "-o=filename". Also, project style when taking both forms is usually
>> more like
>> -o filename
>> --offset=filename
> This style was cargo-culted from the catalog scripts. I can settle on
> just the first form if you like.
>

I would rather we used the standard perl module Getopt::Long, as
numerous programs we have already do.

cheers

andrew

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