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If you ever wondered where that looking weird to me =E2=80=9C--=E2=80=9D=
 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
=E2=80=9C12.2 Utility Syntax Guidelines =E2=80=94 Guideline 10=E2=80=9D =
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 '-' characte=
r.

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.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity