# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Ken Williams
# on Thursday 16 June 2005 08:42 pm:
>In my experience it's more like 99.999%. And I can't actually
> remember seeing a legit case of the 0.001% coming out of my fingers,
> but I'm throwing it in there as a bone.
>
>The alias thingy is just an example of people setting up their
>preferred default behavior and then allowing themselves to alter that
>in occasional specific cases. It's a common idiom for lots of
> commands that take flags.
Ok, and maybe I showing my age here, but is *this* where the
negated-options thing comes from? I.E. is this the historic (and
entire) reason for having the 'foo!' syntax in Getopt::Long?
If so, is that why there is so much resistance to evaluating in anything
besides command-line order?
If this is the case, then the cat to be skinned is a couple of steps to
the left, since an alias override is a different beast than a
config-file override (and not having any way to tell them apart isn't
going to help either.)
--Eric
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Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage: the pain is a memory
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