I'll add another reason to advocate code reuse: collaboration.

Thousands of developers have used Getopt::Long. It has been proven, tested debuged, refined, pondered, enhanced, and applied through countless test and real-world use cases. There is no way that a home made solution will have evolved through as rigorous a refining forge as a core module. Code reuse, and in particular the use of widely popular modules, is inherently and consistantly safer than inventing your own solution to a problem that was solved ages ago.

If you've got a new problem, not addressed by a trusted and proven module, you earn the fun of inventing your own solution. But command line parameter parsing has been done before, the right way, a lot. Unless you've got a unique need not solved by existing solutions there's no need to risk making a mistake building your own approach to a problem that's already been solved.


Dave

In reply to Re: Parsing the command line: manual or module? by davido
in thread Parsing the command line: manual or module? by bobf

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