Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 17:04:19 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r259058 - head/usr.bin/bc Message-ID: <20131207170419.124ea16e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmw%2BcjJUqVQUy2WyHbcS2-7od=4gQDK%2BL9%2BriVzX%2BZYwg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201312070627.rB76RtGr022954@svn.freebsd.org> <CAF6rxgmw%2BcjJUqVQUy2WyHbcS2-7od=4gQDK%2BL9%2BriVzX%2BZYwg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:44:19 -0500 Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Author: delphij > > Date: Sat Dec 7 06:27:54 2013 > > New Revision: 259058 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/259058 > > > > Log: > > Remove mention of the compatibility option 'q', which is > > intentionally undocumented and its only purpose is that > > we do not bail out when used as a drop-in replacement of > > a different implementation. > > As I mentioned in the reply to the PR this change goes in the wrong direction. > > We should instead document -q as a compatibility option. > Undocumented flags, even as NOPS, are bugs. It should be documented as a do-nothing option. -- Tom Rhodes
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