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

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

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-argumentshould be accepted  
> as a delimiter indicating the endof options. Any following arguments  
> should be treatedas 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.

-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University