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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:32:28PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> This then suggests we need two command-flags, one which
> always takes an argument and one which never takes one.
> As to which-is-which, or what the implied argument is
> for the flag which never takes an argument, I like -i
> for the flag which never takes an argument, and having
> -i mean the same as '-I ""', but I'd be equally happy
> with any other combination just as long as we are not
> adding a command-flag that takes an optional argument.

Why do we need to waste two flags on this functionality?
IF we are not going to accurately follow perl, then require "-i" to have
an argument.  The reason for allowing -i to not have an argument is
because Perl does not require it.  I have been shot down at having `sed'
accurately reimplement this Perl functionality, so others can relax their
optionless "-i" requirement.  If ``sed -i"" foo'' works properly, people
can just live with it.

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