Re: [Caml-list] Arg parsing

[Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, John Prevost wrote:

> Perhaps if you explained why you want to do this, it would be easier
> for us to help you.  For example, if you're using #use to test out
> argument parsing code, perhaps this could help you:
> 
> module Sys =
>   struct
>     include Sys
>     let argv = [| "testprogram"; "my"; "arguments"; "for"; "testing" |]
>   end
> 
> Other than that, I'm having a *really* hard time figuring out why you
> would want to examine your command line arguments from an interactive
> program.

That's precisely what I want to do. And I do not see why I should have to 
bend over backwards and write such extra code for a task as simple as that 
which could be easily resolved by just making the ocaml interpreter accept 
a '--' arg properly...

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