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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: command line arguments
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224122448.GG20902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140760330.5306.3.camel@dragon>

Hi -

hunt wrote:
> [...]
> Why not do things the standard way and just pass all the args in as
> strings? 

Because then they cannot substitute for numeric literals, such as
parameters to probe point functors, histogram parameters.

> Encoding the type in the args makes the command line very inflexible. 
> No way to do variable args. No way to do standard options, etc. 

How so?  If you want to look at them as strings, only refer to
@1....@NNN.


- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-23 22:42 Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-24  5:52 ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-24 12:24   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-02-24 18:44     ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-25 21:38       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-27 20:34         ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-24 13:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-02-24 15:51   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-24 20:59     ` Roland McGrath
2006-02-24 21:22       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-23 23:41 Stone, Joshua I
2006-02-24  1:00 ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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