prolog vs prologue

[Ben Elliston]

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