Bug 14921 – getopt throws preventing printing of options

std.getopt.getopt can throw. What do you print in this case, since the mechanism used to print the help is embedded in the GetOptResult that is returned? I think there should be a configuration option to embed in the GetOptResult the error message instead of throwing it. At the moment, I have an ugly workaround: void main(string[] args) { void callGetOpt(ref string[] a) { getoptresult = getopt(a, ...); } try { callGetOpt(args); if(getoptresult.helpRequested) usage(getoptresult); } catch(Exception ex) { callGetOpt(null); // generate the help anyway usage(getoptresult); // print usage } ... }

Note, the workaround only works if you *don't* have required options.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 14525 ***