[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: A question regarding cmdargs package

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 10/13/10 06:07 , Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Ben Franksen schrieb:
>> I wanted to create a clone of an existing program that had no help option
>> and instead gave the help output if it saw an invalid option.
> 
> I find it very annoying if a program floods my terminal with a help
> page, when I just misspelled something. A short descriptive message that
> points to the mistake would be of more help for me.

He mentioned that he has backward compatibility constraints.  In an ideal
world....

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