I understand, that the double-dash was a logical step from a single-dash. My problem is, what we ended up with, is really not great. It's a typical case of the

I understand, that the double-dash was a logical step from a single-dash. My problem is, what we ended up with, is really not great. It's a typical case of the slowly boiled frog... rc and es is an good example of what improvements can be achieved, if we challenge historical decisions and get rid of the not so great ones. The "; " prompt was just a historical side-note, because I saw someone asking about it the other day on twitter: https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1316081075043463170?s=20&t=qrIP_XbAikNdNrFgKDJ5eQ https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1316081075043463170... By the quoting rules, I meant, that if you have a variable (eg v='a b') with a value containing whitespace, when you reference it ($v), then you don't have to worry about quoting it in any way, because the space in its value won't cause any problems.