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Re: How do you organize options or global parameters to a ps program?

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> it is sometimes simple and easy to just keep the options
> in the file, right at the top. 

And in www.jdawiseman.com/placemat.html the first 726 lines are the 450 parameters and settings. 

> One thing I (think I) have used is to collect
> the options in a dictionary, then put all the defaults in
> another dictionary. Then you can use 'dict dict copy' to
> replace the defaults with any definitions in the new dict
> and use the resulting dict.

That’s good — I like. But having all the defaults explicitly at the top helps users, in that they can see what sort of thing could go into each parameter.

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How do you organize options or global parameters to a ps program? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-09-20 21:00 -0700
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