Suggestion: Ignore single-letter option values by default

[MrPetovan]

Hi and thanks for this gem of a library that I started using over at https://github.com/friendica/friendica. While it does mostly a good job parsing the command-line separating arguments and options, the order is often critical to get the intended result.

For example with an example bin/console:

bin/console command -p
Arguments:

• "command"

Options:

• p: 1

But if the order is reversed the result is completely different:

bin/console -p command
Arguments: none

Options:

• p: "command"

I'd like to suggest to ignore values for single-letter options and add the possibility to declare specific options that actually expect a value.

What do you think about it?

[asika32764]

Hmm, In my experience it is an expected result if you add a string just after any option tag, it will look as the option's value.

I don't know what other console framework will do but this parsing method is fork from Joomla Clinput, so I just keep the same convention.

Is there any other CLI program ignore single letter option that I can reference to?

[asika32764]

OK, I can confirm composer will ignore single letter too.

If it is a convention of community, we should follow this way.

[asika32764]

But npm minimist uses same way as SimpleConsole.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimist

So I need more caes to research. Or simply add a property to toggle this function.

[MrPetovan]

While working on my console, I was looking at what the git console command does. Single-letter options don't take values by default except for specific ones that are identified in the help.