On 25.02.2015 14:22, Philip Martin wrote: > Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes: > >> The single usage of the --strict option is arguably complete nonsense: >> the default docstring, which isn't displayed *anywhere*, is 'use strict >> semantics' and ... means nothing at all. In actual usage, --strict is >> hardly mnemonic for not printing trailing newlines. > --strict originally did more. r845498, in 1.0, shows that --strict > originally stripped both the the path prefix and the newline. r872554, > in 1.6, limited --strict to a single path at which point it just > stripped newlines. > >> Given all that, I propose we deprecate --strict and conflate the actual >> option value with --no-newline, like this (this is trunk, untested): > That looks like a good solution.
r1662224 -- Brane
