Microprojects: Add idea: option macros with no --no-xxx form

mhagger · mhagger · commit 779d89140bcc · 2014-03-07T08:35:38.000+01:00
Suggested-by: Duy Nguyen &lt;pclouds@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/SoC-2014-Microprojects.md b/SoC-2014-Microprojects.md
@@ -148,5 +148,13 @@ too ambitious and not get it done.
     more readable than `starts_with()`?</s> **taken**
 
 11. Find places where we scan a string twice unnecessarily, once with
-    `strchr()` and then with `strlen()`, and rewrite such a pattern
-    using `strchrnul()` as appropriate.
+    `strchr()` and then with `strlen()`, and rewrite these sites using
+    `strchrnul()` when appropriate.
+
+12. Currently in order to disallow the `--[no]-xxx` form of a
+    command-line option, we have to initialize the option's full
+    `struct option` explicitly.  It'd be nice to have a set of OPT_*
+    macros with PARSE_OPT_NONEG set.  Find and update all `struct
+    option []` declarations with the new macros (including ones that
+    should never accept `--no-xxx` form, but do anyway).  *Warning:
+    this is more a milliproject than a microproject.*
