Peter M. Groen / cxxopts

Commit 3d405ef1639a918ea8798666e2b02eb9cef889c0

Authored by Jarryd Beck
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Improve boolean readme 

Fixes #157. Fix the wording in the README about booleans.
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112 112 Boolean options have a default implicit value of `"true"`, which can be
113 113 overridden. The effect is that writing `-o` by itself will set option `o` to
114   -`true`. However, they can also be written with various strings using either
115   -`=value` or the next argument.
  114 +`true`. However, they can also be written with various strings using `=value`.
  115 +There is no way to disambiguate positional arguments from the value following
  116 +a boolean, so we have chosen that they will be positional arguments, and
  117 +therefore, `-o false` does not work.
116 118  
117 119 ## Custom help
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