On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:53:40AM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote:
> Using long options sounds like a good idea. However, I'm not sure if we 
> should be removing or changing the meaning of some of existing 
> one-letter options. You know, backward compatibility and all that...

Fortunately the perldoc interface is intended for humans who have a much
better time of adapting to change than computer programs.  For precedent,
the perl debugger interface was recently overhauled in an incompatible way.


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