On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/04/2015 01:30 PM, Robert "Finny" Merrill wrote: > It's not "shall not be recognized [ever]", but "shall not be recognized > in the manner [common to most utilities]. The very next phrase says > that it "shall be recognized as a string operand". > > Or put another way, as a special case for the 'echo' utility, '--' shall > be treated the same as any other argument, and always be output > literally, rather than being recognized as the special elided > end-of-options marker, because 'echo' does not understand options (at > least when POSIX rules are in effect).
So then, when POSIX rules /aren't/ in effect, why not have -- work as it usually does, since we're already breaking those rules by accepting the --help option?
