# from Ken Williams
# on Wednesday 09 July 2008 13:41:
>> I think that it developed organically, though IIRC Andy Armstrong
>> was going to(/did?) improve it. For example, it used to be that none
>> of them were flags (and I didn't know that they had become such, I
>> still do `--verbose 1` and `--uninst 1`).
>
>We don't have to do '--verbose 1' anymore?
Nope. There is a handful of things in _optional_arg() which don't
require the '1' (but they do (ick?) DWIM) if the next thing in @argv
starts with a digit.)
There is also a list of options in _translate_option() which are allowed
to have dashes represent underscores.
--Eric
--
Turns out the optimal technique is to put it in reverse and gun it.
--Steven Squyres (on challenges in interplanetary robot navigation)
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