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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 17:04:19 -0500
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r259058 - head/usr.bin/bc
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:44:19 -0500
Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > 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.
> 
> As I mentioned in the reply to the PR this change goes in the wrong direction.
> 
> We should instead document -q as a compatibility option.
> Undocumented flags, even as NOPS, are bugs.

It should be documented as a do-nothing option.

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Tom Rhodes