Re: That funny “--” before ASIS options with ASIS applications

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, April 12, 2013 12:53:05 PM UTC-6, Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) wrote:
> If you ever wondered where that looking weird to me “--” before ASIS  
> options with ASIS applications come from, then here the answer: it comes  
>  from POSIX.
> 
> Reference:
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html
> 
> “12.2 Utility Syntax Guidelines — Guideline 10” says:
> 
> > The first -- argument that is not an option-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.
> 
> That's finally not that weird as it seemed to me so far, and that's even  
> standard. ASIS options are just program operands instead of program  
> options.


Ah, *nix... corrupting everything it touches. {POSIX.1 "Core Services" incorporates Standard ANSI C, and is likely one reason that almost all low-level stuff [drivers for devices] is C, feeding back into itself and encouraging HW designers to a C-based mentality.}