On 2010-08-03, Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-08-02, Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Right. There's no good convention for "end of list of arguments to an
>> > option". There's only a good convention for "end of variable argument
>> > list" ('--'), and since this is the closest thing...
>>
>> And since there _is_ a convention that '--' ends the option list, it's
>> A Bad Thing(TM) to use it for something else. I think violating the
>> almost universal convention about what '--' means is a terrible idea,
>> but apparently we're now stuck with it.
>
> The convention is that '--' ends the entire option list, not a list of
> arguments to a single option.
Yes.
> Therefore mutt clearly uses something other than the existing
> convention.
I thought that's what I wrote.
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