i would suggest adding equivalent options with underscores
and leave the options with '-'s, but label them
as deprecated in the manual.

But it's not that big of a deal, i was more being lazy and reluctant to
change my code that was "broken" by the addition of these flags.
[ but i went ahead and changed it anyway ]

Plus now it occurs to me that one could also have a command flag
with a filename that had a '-' in the middle and need to know how to  
handle
that case anyway.

thanks,
-m

On May 22, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Istvan Varga wrote:

> This would be an incompatible change, though, and given that
> csoundCompile() requires the host application to build a
> command line, the flags are in some way part of the API (i.e.
> changing them can possibly break existing frontends).
> Or did you mean creating aliases for all the options that
> include a '-' character (although it would be somewhat
> confusing to have for example --expression-opt, but having
> to use --expression_opt or even -expression_opt in the Mac
> frontend) ?
>
> On Monday 15 May 2006 01:44, matt ingalls wrote:
>
>> in my frontend app i have a little text edit box where users enter
>> commandline flags, before rendering, i parse the box and create argv
>> and argc to pass to csound.  i would like to request to remove any
>> '-'s inside commandline options, for example this one:
>>
>> --expression-opt
>>
>> it adds a requirement of spaces to delineate flags, which otherwise
>> could be considered optional [at least how i am using them in my
>> text edit box].  the separated by spaces requirement is just an extra
>> possible user error.
>>
>> in addition, it just makes things a bit harder to read when you get
>> a long list of options.
>>
>> changing '-' to '_' would suffice.
>
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