Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Independent of percentages, why disallow --foo --no-foo provided >>there's a clear definition of the semantics? > > I never suggested that it should be disallowed. Only that it should be > equivalent to '--no-foo --foo'.
That's part of the "clearly defined" semantics. The problem that I see is legacy. Many users expect the left-to-right behaviour, and will get confused if some tools act differently. (And no, I do not have a good solution for that.) -- Johan
