[Python-Dev] Reserving an arg space for Jython (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Apr 13 01:14:14 CEST 2008

Frank Wierzbicki writes:

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

I was also going to suggest a platform independent option. I like -Xwhat-follows-is-impl-dependent. This would work just fine for us, and it makes sense to have it available for all implementations. If everyone likes this I will change the patch for CPython accordingly. How is

-X is reserved for non-standard arguments

How about "-X is reserved for implementation-specific arguments"? Ie, I suppose that the intent is not that these arguments won't be standardized, it's that they be standardized by the affected implementations.

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