Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> writes: > Hmm. Lintian has been configuring Getopt::Long with no_auto_abbrev at > least since 0.9.3 (released in 1998). Does anybody remember why? ;-)
I dislike auto_abbrev because it means that a valid flag can become invalid because you add an entirely different flag. I find that behavior really unintuitive and surprising. Most people don't want to enter in random prefixes of flags. There are usually specific things that they think to enter. For that, it feels cleaner to just add them as explicit aliases. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
