Yes that's exactly how it works, with shell options! http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#how-can-you-design-a-good-language-on-top-of-she

Yes that's exactly how it works, with shell options! http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#how-can-you-design-a-good-language-on-top-of-shell http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#ho... I need to document things a bit better but the idea is here: https://lobste.rs/s/ritbgc/what_glue_lanugages_do_you_use_like#c_la5m5a https://lobste.rs/s/ritbgc/what_glue_lanugages_do_you_use_li... In the case of echo, we respect -e and -n, but we also have "write -- -n" for correctness. I try not to "stomp" on existing names. --- And yes there's an analogy to Perl: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-unix-shell-should-evolve-like-perl-5 http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-u...