parsing options

[W M Brelsford]

On Thu May 15 2003 at 04:48 PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:44:11AM -0400, Greg Louis wrote:
> > On 20030515 (Thu) at 1128:28 -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > > -Pu, -PU upper_case
> > > > For the switches, a lower case letter enables the option (turns it
> > > > on) and an upper case letter disables it (turns it off).
> > > > Note 2:  Option '-Pu' makes bogofilter case insensitive, which is
> > > > the way bogofilter has operated since day 1.  With "-Pu", words
> > > > "test", "Test", and "TEST" are all converted to "test".  All the
> > > > recent tests of case folding (or not folding) indicate that doing
> > > > changing upper case to lower case is really, really bad.
> > > Enabling "upper_case" makes it case-insensitive?  Seems much more
> > > confusing than -Pf and -PF to me.
> > Yep.  That "upper_case" terminology is a serious misnomer; the
> > distinction is not between upper and lower, but between case-sensitive
> > and case-insensitive.  I thought folding was a much more descriptive
> > term.
> 
> So why not have case_sensitive and -Pc/-PC for enable/disable.  It makes
> more sense to a layman that way anyway.

Or, to add to the choices, -Pi/-PI for ignore_case (as used by
grep, etc.).

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Bill Brelsford
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