On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:47:39AM +0000, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 29 Nov 2007, at 00:27, Smylers wrote: >>> 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). > > > I'll shortly commit changes to Test::Harness that implement test options > with '--' as the punctuation. If we can think of a sensible reason not to > do that I'll change it :)
The only reasons I can think of are that either we have a more important use for passing through options or we think that we might have in the future. Without breaking backwards compatibility, this is a unique resource. Gosh, that sounded dramatic! -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
