Re: Defect in XBD Utility Syntax Guidelines

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glenn Fowler said:
>   Guideline 10: 
>      The argument -- should be accepted as a delimiter indicating
>      the end of options. Any following arguments should be treated
>      as operands, even if they begin with the '-' character. The --
>      argument should not be used as an option or as an operand. 

Hmm; as worded, this says that you can't have a file "--" passed to a
command that follows these guidelines, even by:

    rm -- xxx --

It should be "... as an option or as the first operand", surely?

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