Smylers said:
The convention of using '--' to mean 'that's the end of my own
arguments' neatly avoids all of these issues.
FWIW, I'm with Smylers here. '--' has been around for many years as a
command-line convention for "signifying the end of options." (from
bash(1)).
/me likes gentle learning curves, and would like to see command-line
interface consistency; not just within the Perl sphere, but in general.
- Salve, who thinks command-line options deserve the same amount of
attention as programming API's and over-the-wire protocols.
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