The main breakinge change cases:
- `&[char]`: now requires removing `&`
- All other non-ID `&[_]`: hopefully #1041 will make these non-breaking
Fixes#2870
For now, we are focusing only on iterating over the argument ids and not
the values.
This provides a building block for more obscure use cases like iterating
over argument values, in order. We are not providing it out of the box
at the moment both to not overly incentize a less common case, because
it would abstract away a performance hit, and because we want to let
people experiment with this and if a common path emerges we can consider
it then if there is enough users.
Fixes#1206
Now that `Id` is public, we can have `ArgMatches` report them. If we
have to choose one behavior, this is more universal. The user can still
look up the values, this works with groups whose args have different
types, and this allows people to make decisions off of it when otherwise
there isn't enogh information.
Fixes#2317Fixes#3748
This is a step towards #1041
- `ArgGroup` no longer takes a lifetime
- One less field type needs a lifetime
For now, we are using a more brute force type (`String`) so we can
establish performance base lines. I was torn on whether to use `&str`
everywhere or make an `IdRef`. The latter would add a lot of noise that
I'm concerned about, so i left it simple for now. `IdRef` would help to
communicate the types involved though.
Speaking of communicating types, I'm also torn on whether we should use
`Id` for all strings or if we should have `Id`, `Name`, etc types to
avoid people mixing and matching.
This added 18.7 KB.
Compared to `HEAD~` on `06_rustup`:
- build: 6.23us -> 7.41us
- parse: 8.17us -> 9.36us
- parse_sc: 7.65us -> 9.29us
This is a part of #2870 and is prep for #1041
Oddly enough, this dropped the binary size by 200 Bytes
Compared to `HEAD~` on `06_rustup`:
- build: 6.21us -> 6.23us
- parse: 7.55us -> 8.17us
- parse_sc: 7.95us -> 7.65us
This dropped 17KB
Again, performance shouldn't be too bad as the total number of argument
id's passed in by the user shouldn't be huge, with the upper end being
5-15 except for in extreme cases like rustc accepting arguments from
cargo via a file.
This dropped `.text` by 14KB
Anything in debug asserts or help/usage output doesn't matter for
performance but I wouldn't be surprised if this was comparable since the
container sizes we are talking about are relatively small.
Documenting the existing behavior is challenging which suggests it can
cause user confusion. So long as its not too hard to explicitly
specify actions, we should just do it.
Fixes#4057
Before we introduced actions, it required specific setups to engage with
claps version and help printing. With actions making that more
explicit, we don't get as much benefit from our multiple, obscure, ways
of users customizing help
Before
- Modify existing help or version with `mut_arg` which would
automatically be pushed down the command tree like `global(true)`
- Create an new help or version and have it treated as if it was the
built-in on (I think)
- Use the same flags as built-in and have the built-in flags
automatically disabled
- Users could explicitly disable the built-in functionality and do what
they want
Now
- `mut_arg` no longer works as we define help and version flags at the
end
- If someone defines a flag that overlaps with the built-ins by id,
long, or short, a debug assert will tell them to explicitly disable
the built-in
- Any customization has to be done by a user providing their own. To
propagate through the command tree, they need to set `global(true)`.
Benefits
- Hopefully, this makes it less confusing on how to override help
behavior. Someone creates an arg and we then tell them how to disable
the built-in
- This greatly simplifies the arg handling by pushing more
responsibility onto the developer in what are hopefully just corner
cases
- This removes about 1Kb from .text
Fixes#3405Fixes#4033