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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-12-21 22:50:05 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-12-21 22:50:05 (GMT) |
commit | 76e6da38c0f3e15a23fce4d3137e7a4d6d16607b (patch) | |
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Document GetoptError and label error an alias.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex b/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex index 72824a7..1c17ab5 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libgetopt.tex @@ -41,12 +41,19 @@ found, thus allowing multiple occurrences. Long and short options may be mixed. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{excdesc}{error} +\begin{excdesc}{GetoptError} This is raised when an unrecognized option is found in the argument list or when an option requiring an argument is given none. The argument to the exception is a string indicating the cause of the error. For long options, an argument given to an option which does -not require one will also cause this exception to be raised. +not require one will also cause this exception to be raised. The +attributes \member{msg} and \member{opt} give the error message and +related option; if there is no specific option to which the exception +relates, \member{opt} is an empty string. +\end{excdesc} + +\begin{excdesc}{error} +Alias for \exception{GetoptError}; for backward compatibility. \end{excdesc} |