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Bug #45098 named constants require long opt
Submitted: 2008-05-26 19:38 UTC Modified: 2009-12-26 11:02 UTC
From: philip@php.net Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Doc Build problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Mac
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2008-05-26 19:38 UTC] philip@php.net 
Description:
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Named constants seemingly cannot be used with short options, for example:

  phd -v VERBOSE_NOVERSION

Whereas the following works:

  phd --version VERBOSE_NOVERSION

The difference is confusing, however, maybe there is a good reason.

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 [2008-05-27 07:37 UTC] bjori@php.net 
(it is phd --verbose .. not --version :)

The real reason is that before PHP5.3 there was no such thing as "optional argument".
For the --verbose option it is natural to specify an option, but -v usually doesn't take arguments, but are passed multiple times for more verbosity.

We could fix it in 5.3 (optional argument), but then we would need some weird 5.2 BC code and it would be really inconsistent between PHP versions...

-Hannes
 [2009-12-26 11:01 UTC] svn@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of bjori
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=292638
Log: Fixed bug#45098 (named constants require long opt)
 [2009-12-26 11:02 UTC] bjori@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in SVN. Since the websites are not directly
updated from the SVN server, the fix might need some time to spread
across the globe to all mirror sites, including PHP.net itself.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP.net better.
 [2009-12-26 11:02 UTC] bjori@php.net 
Note though: This is optional argument.
Optional arguments to shortops are -arg=value


phd -v=VERBOSE_INFO ...
 
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