I agree, for the reason you gave: dashes are the norm in Unix, so they "feel right" for flag names.
-Will On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Dan Burkert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As of Kudu 1.3, multi-word flags can use a dash '-' separator in lieu of > the underscore '_' separator. For example, --memory_limit_hard_bytes can > now be specified as --memory-limit-hard-bytes, or even > --memory_limit-hard_bytes. Of the people I've talked to, most seem to > prefer dashes to underscores in flag names, since that's been the Unix norm > for a long time. > > Going forward, I'd like to propose that we document flag names using dashes > wherever possible. We would continue accepting underscores indefinitely, > since to stop doing so would break compatibility. For the most part, this > means incrementally switching the documentation to use dashes, and getting > glog to output dashes in --help output. > > Any thoughts? > > - Dan >
