Github user mliesenberg commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1097#issuecomment-157719075
optional in the sense of, if the list is passed, then the missing arguments
are added to the help text in an extra paragraph at the end.
realized probably via method overloading.
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