Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Will the sky fall and babies cry if we go with '--'? I would hope not.

It closes off the conventional method of passing in files that look like
switches.  So yes, that hunk of sky will fall.


> Let's have a quick show of hands and move on, eh?
> 
> [ ] --
> [X] something else (please specify)

One of...

--test_args='--foo --bar'

or

--start_test_args --foo --bar --end_test_args

I prefer the former, but if technical limitations in the way we call the test
programs force us to keep the arguments as a list [1] then the latter will do.

[1] system $program, $file, @args;


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