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Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> However, there's demonstrable interest in this feature for GNU/Linux as
> well, from the lists, and for Java on all operating systems.
>
Please don't use '@filename' on Linux, use a normal switch with an
argument. The problems of '-' being used for switches is bad enough
without another valid filename character being overloaded. At least the
'-' problem is well understood and people can avoid using filenames
beginning with '-'.
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Tristan Wibberley
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