On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Renato Golin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I originally disliked the change but failed to come up with a strong > technical argument and other folks seemed all happy. > We should have a single unambiguous spelling for long options in the absence of compatibility concerns with other tools. The vastly more common prefix for these in the rest of the world is '--'. LLVM's usage of '-' is quite strange. I also think there is a strong technical reason to require the '=' -- it makes the relative ordering unimportant. For any tool (such as a build system) which builds up commandline flags, this is a huge advantage. That was why I originally proposed we converge on the particular spelling. Maybe we should come up with a draft on what we want for options? > I don't know that we need some formal document of this kind, but if you'd like to propose a patch for the clang internals documentation, that would be nice.
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