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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: main: fix error message for missing argument |
Date: | Sun, 7 Oct 2018 14:40:06 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Akim Demaille wrote:
I confess I’m confused with the way program_name works: sometimes it’s complete, sometimes it’s the only basename (because getprogname and program_name are not the same). So our error messages are inconsistent.
I confess I've forgotten how all that stuff works, or supposed to.
‘Operand’ sounds a bit weird. I’d rather use ‘argument’.
The 'operand' terminology is taken from POSIX <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html>. An operand is an argument that is neither an option nor an option-argument.
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