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Re: prolog vs prologue
Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> Sigh. I thought that we were discussing fixing the manual, not
> renaming options.
It's kind of important that they're both fixed ;-)
> 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.
I figured as much, so thanks for clarifying. At the very least, I
think it is important for command line options using the spelling
"prologue" to be support for consistency, with "prolog" as synonyms
for such.
Ben