// Compile With:
//   gmcs -debug+ -r:System.Core Options.cs -o:NDesk.Options.dll
//   gmcs -debug+ -d:LINQ -r:System.Core Options.cs -o:NDesk.Options.dll
//
// The LINQ version just changes the implementation of
// OptionSet.Parse(IEnumerable<string>), and confers no semantic changes.

//
// A Getopt::Long-inspired option parsing library for C#.
//
// NDesk.Options.OptionSet is built upon a key/value table, where the
// key is a option format string and the value is a delegate that is 
// invoked when the format string is matched.
//
// Option format strings:
//  Regex-like BNF Grammar: 
//    name: .+
//    type: [=:]
//    sep: ( [^{}]+ | '{' .+ '}' )?
//    aliases: ( name type sep ) ( '|' name type sep )*
// 
// Each '|'-delimited name is an alias for the associated action.  If the
// format string ends in a '=', it has a required value.  If the format
// string ends in a ':', it has an optional value.  If neither '=' or ':'
// is present, no value is supported.  `=' or `:' need only be defined on one
// alias, but if they are provided on more than one they must be consistent.
//
// Each alias portion may also end with a "key/value separator", which is used
// to split option values if the option accepts > 1 value.  If not specified,
// it defaults to '=' and ':'.  If specified, it can be any character except
// '{' and '}' OR the *string* between '{' and '}'.  If no separator should be
// used (i.e. the separate values should be distinct arguments), then "{}"
// should be used as the separator.
//
// Options are extracted either from the current option by looking for
// the option name followed by an '=' or ':', or is taken from the
// following option IFF:
//  - The current option does not contain a '=' or a ':'
//  - The current option requires a value (i.e. not a Option type of ':')
//
// The `name' used in the option format string does NOT include any leading
// option indicator, such as '-', '--', or '/'.  All three of these are
// permitted/required on any named option.
//
// Option bundling is permitted so long as:
//   - '-' is used to start the option group
//   - all of the bundled options are a single character
//   - at most one of the bundled options accepts a value, and the value
//     provided starts from the next character to the end of the string.
//
// This allows specifying '-a -b -c' as '-abc', and specifying '-D name=value'
// as '-Dname=value'.
//
// Option processing is disabled by specifying "--".  All options after "--"
// are returned by OptionSet.Parse() unchanged and unprocessed.
//
// Unprocessed options are returned from OptionSet.Parse().
//
// Examples:
//  int verbose = 0;
//  OptionSet p = new OptionSet ()
//    .Add ("v", v => ++verbose)
//    .Add ("name=|value=", v => Console.WriteLine (v));
//  p.Parse (new string[]{"-v", "--v", "/v", "-name=A", "/name", "B", "extra"});
//
// The above would parse the argument string array, and would invoke the
// lambda expression three times, setting `verbose' to 3 when complete.  
// It would also print out "A" and "B" to standard output.
// The returned array would contain the string "extra".
//
// C# 3.0 collection initializers are supported and encouraged:
//  var p = new OptionSet () {
//    { "h|?|help", v => ShowHelp () },
//  };
//
// System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter is also supported, allowing the use of
// custom data types in the callback type; TypeConverter.ConvertFromString()
// is used to convert the value option to an instance of the specified
// type:
//
//  var p = new OptionSet () {
//    { "foo=", (Foo f) => Console.WriteLine (f.ToString ()) },
//  };
//
// Random other tidbits:
//  - Boolean options (those w/o '=' or ':' in the option format string)
//    are explicitly enabled if they are followed with '+', and explicitly
//    disabled if they are followed with '-':
//      string a = null;
//      var p = new OptionSet () {
//        { "a", s => a = s },
//      };
//      p.Parse (new string[]{"-a"});   // sets v != null
//      p.Parse (new string[]{"-a+"});  // sets v != null
//      p.Parse (new string[]{"-a-"});  // sets v == null
//