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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Robert Bruce Findler wrote: > > 1. Cmdline seems to have a mandatory builtin help system. In args-fold, a > > help option in handled by the programmer like any other option. > > yes, we found that making the --help option a built-in saves a lot on > mantainence. It's much harder to forget to update the help docs in > their current form. It sounds convenient. Hopefully srfi-37 can be used underneath by people who want to create a nice macro or procedure capturing their own help conventions. Since an automatic help system wasn't part of my goals for args-fold, I think I'll leave this point at that. -Anthony Carrico