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Neither long flags or short flags should change meaning. I'm not sure where you got the idea that short flags do.
by Flimm 14y ago
Neither long flags or short flags should change meaning. I'm not sure where you got the idea that short flags do.
- nathanstitt 14y agoYou now, I'm really not sure where I picked that up. It's always been my understanding that it was acceptable to change the short flags on a utility as part of a new major version. Not that you should change 'em capriciously, but that it wasn't the end of the world if you did. Of course, I can't find any references to back me up on that, so you may very well be correct.
- zxtang 14y ago"GNU grep 2.12 changes behavior of recursion options, breaks existing scripts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295681 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295681