svn commit: r259058 - head/usr.bin/bc

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Sun Dec 8 20:09:17 UTC 2013


On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:44:19 -0500
> Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Xin LI <delphij at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Author: delphij
>>> Date: Sat Dec  7 06:27:54 2013
>>> New Revision: 259058
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259058
>>> 
>>> Log:
>>>  Remove mention of the compatibility option 'q', which is
>>>  intentionally undocumented and its only purpose is that
>>>  we do not bail out when used as a drop-in replacement of
>>>  a different implementation.
>> 
>> As I mentioned in the reply to the PR this change goes in the wrong direction.
>> 
>> We should instead document -q as a compatibility option.
>> Undocumented flags, even as NOPS, are bugs.
> 
> It should be documented as a do-nothing option.

It should be documented in the manpage as a do-nothing option.

It should not be included in Usage.

Tim



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