Andy Armstrong writes:

> > > > Could we not add a feature to prove and/or runtests such that, any
> > > > arguments after a bare "--" will be passed on to the scripts it
> > > > runs?  I've often wanted this myself, and --exec seems like
> > > > overkill to me.
> 
> Agreed. I think the '--' is redundant

But is it doing harm?  There are quite a few commands which use -- to
mean 'end of options; what follows is data' (where "data" can (and often
does mean) options to pass opaquely to another command being invoked).

Smylers

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