What does it mean to say that an argument's meaning could be unamibigious regardless of the program it is passed into ? that's a logical impossibility Still, i

What does it mean to say that an argument's meaning could be unamibigious regardless of the program it is passed into ? that's a logical impossibility Still, it would be right and proper if Unix programs a little type-safety in their arguments, for example by requiring that ALL arguments be flags, as in this hypothetical smart_rm: "/bin/smart_rm -rf --pattern foo/bar"