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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#58521: human readable still wrong output (after 20+ years?) |
Date: | Mon, 2 Jan 2023 13:40:22 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 |
On 2023-01-02 13:22, Chandler Sobel-Sorenson wrote:
Unfortunately backward-compatibility concerns are real,Such as?
I imagine lots of programs read the current output format. GNU 'sort' does. I haven't investigated all such programs.
The current behavior has been in place since Larry McVoy contributed it in 1996. It'd take a pretty strong argument to change it now. Mere dislike wouldn't suffice.
this is about your programs outputting WRONG and INCORRECT values, inconsistent with reality
"Inconsistent with reality" is hyperbole; this is merely disagreement about notation.
All you need to do is add an "i" to -h's prefixes
That would bloat the output and introduce compatibility concerns as mentioned above.
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