Original bug ID: 1773
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

In ocaml-3.06 we have

let parse = parse_argv Sys.argv;;

In 3.07beta1 we have

let parse l f msg =
current := 0;
try
parse_argv Sys.argv l f msg;
with
| Bad msg -> eprintf "%s" msg; exit 0;
| Help msg -> eprintf "%s" msg; exit 2;

The resetting of Arg.current causes incompatibilities. In particular
Gerd Stolpman's findlib fails as he calls Arg.parse relying on setting
Arg.current.

I'm not saying this is a bug but it is a backward incompatibility and
should be documented.