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Re: prolog vs prologue
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:53:47AM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
>
> > > Which should it be, so that I can submit a patch to correct this? Or
> > > is it too late to fix, given that it will break existing command
> > > lines?
>
> > Can't you could keep the misspelled ones as undocumented options?
>
> Perhaps, sure. What is the convention for changing command line
> options? Is a synonym option kept around for backward compatibility?
> If so, for how long?
Sigh. I thought that we were discussing fixing the manual, not renaming
options. As I said, the dictionaries I consulted showed "prolog" as a
variant spelling, and we should not be breaking existing scripts. If
we want to make changes here then I think that we should support both
spellings indefinitely.