Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:08:13 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r259058 - head/usr.bin/bc Message-ID: <9747EB0E-E798-4436-8969-A5B88765FADA@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <20131207170419.124ea16e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <201312070627.rB76RtGr022954@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgmw%2BcjJUqVQUy2WyHbcS2-7od=4gQDK%2BL9%2BriVzX%2BZYwg@mail.gmail.com> <20131207170419.124ea16e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:44:19 -0500 > Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Author: delphij >>> Date: Sat Dec 7 06:27:54 2013 >>> New Revision: 259058 >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259058 >>>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >> As I mentioned in the reply to the PR this change goes in the wrong = direction. >>=20 >> We should instead document -q as a compatibility option. >> Undocumented flags, even as NOPS, are bugs. >=20 > 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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