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Smylers
Date:
November 29, 2007 02:14
Subject:
Re: Providing command-line arguments to tests run via 'prove'
Message ID:
20071129101429.GA12135@stripey.com
Michael G Schwern writes:

> There's nothing about '--' which indicates "pass the rest through to
> the tests".

It did to me, honestly!  As soon as I opened David's e-mail at the start
of this thread the "--" jumped out of the paragraph of text, and I
guessed what his words would say before I read them.

> In fact, it normally means "stop processing the following as switches
> and instead treat them as files".

Or possibly, it means "stop processing the following as switches".
Which is what it does mean in this case.

Smylers
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