Re: [ID 20000125.005]

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>Getopt::Std   does not stop processing options when it encounters 
>`--', as is traditional under Unix. 
>Since there is no escape mechanism, this makes Getopt::Std useless
>for real programs.

"Real" programs don't use getopts.

I don't see this an particularly onerous.  It's not as though 
you can't remove a file name "--", you know.

--tom

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