getopt(1) doesn't/can't preserve quoted args

[ptw at babel.UUCP]

As described in the man page, getopt(1) will erroneously be passed arguments
if any contain embedded IFS characters.  The correct invocation of getopt
should be:

	set -- `getopt <optstring> "$@"`

to preserve quoted args.  Unfortunately, getopt itself does not preserve
quoting.  The only "legitimate" way I could think of enhancing getopt to
preserve quoted args would be for it to single-quote each element of
its output string, requiring the following usage:

	eval set -- `getopt <optstring> "$@"`

Perhaps the re-quoting could be triggered by a quote char in optstring.

Q:  Does anyone use getopt?  Have they run into this problem?  Can anyone
suggest a better solution?