[MOAB-dev] Reader/Writer filename extension access

[Jason Kraftcheck]

Tim Tautges wrote:
> 
> 
> Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
>>  I can't recall why we
>> decided to add that.
>>
>> - jason
>>
> 
> There should be *some* mechanism for an application to know an option
> wasn't processed, shouldn't there?
> 

Communicating to the application exactly which options were processed would
result in much too complicated of an API.  The alternatives are either all
(fail if any option isn't processed) or none (treat all options as
advisory.)  Neither seems to be quite correct.

 - jason