Actual OptionParser object, automatically created if nonexistent.

If called with a block, yields the OptionParser object and returns the result of the block. If an OptionParser::ParseError exception occurs in the block, it is rescued, a error message printed to STDERR and nil returned.

Source Code

# File optparse.rb, line 1711
def options
  @optparse ||= OptionParser.new
  @optparse.default_argv = self
  block_given? or return @optparse
  begin
    yield @optparse
  rescue ParseError
    @optparse.warn $!
    nil
  end
end