Arguments that start with '-' not parsed correctly

[reflog]

Hi!
Here's a small issue I came across:

var args struct {
  Param string
}

./main --param A works
./main --param="-1h" works
./main --param "-1h" causes "error: missing value for -s"

Our CLI passes hour-differences this way and this used to work for us when using Go's flags, but unfortunately doesn't work with go-arg.

I understand that this is rather an edge case, but wanted to report it anyways.

Thanks for the great library!

[davidjb]

I'm experiencing this as well when trying to supply negative numbers as arguments and seeing the same error message.

[zanvd]

@alexflint, would it make sense to drop these checks?

if !nextIsNumeric(spec.field.Type, args[i+1]) && isFlag(args[i+1]) {
	return fmt.Errorf("missing value for %s", arg)
}

The only downside, I can think of, would be failed commands due to incorrect user input when a value is in fact forgotten.