Re: boolean command-line options

On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:34, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> I found it being done in _optional_arg().  Am I the only one who  
> thinks
> this could use some better documentation?

You're not.

> The chase to understand options currently leads through quite a few
> uncommented functions.  Did I miss a memo with the overview?

I think that it developed organically, though IIRC Andy Armstrong was  
going to(/did?) improve it. For example, it used to be that none of  
them were flags (and I didn't know that they had become such, I still  
do `--verbose 1` and `--uninst 1`).

Best,

David