Package: tcl-parse-args
Source: parse-args
Version: 0.6.3-1
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Massimo Manghi <mxmanghi@apache.org>
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/RubyLane/parse_args
Description: Advanced argument parsing for Tcl
 The commands provided by the Tcl core follow a pattern of optional, named
 arguments (named with a leading "-" to indicate an option) in addition to
 positional arguments. They strongly prefer named arguments when the number
 of arguments and particularly optional arguments grows beyond about 3.
 Tcl scripts however have no access to standard argument parsing
 facilities to implement this pattern and have to build their named argument
 parsing machinery from scratch. This is slow to do in script, error prone,
 and creates noise in the code that distracts from the core task of the
 command implementation.  This means that script-defined commands generally
 present half-baked argument handling APIs and tend to over-use positional
 arguments.
 .
 This package aims to address this weakness by providing a robust argument
 parsing mechanism to script code that can implement the full set of patterns
 established by the core Tcl commands, is terse and readable to specify the
 arguments, and is fast enough to use in any situation.
