Re: [PATCH] stop run-time option processing after "--"

[Lassi Kortela]

> Making it compatible might be nice, but involves a change in how these
> options are parsed - they're comma separated.  I wouldn't be opposed to
> this change, but it deviates further from what we have making backwards
> compatibility more of an issue.  This might not be a problem since these
> options are relatively obscure and it should be easy to tweak a calling
> script.
>
> It would be harder to make a script that can work with older and newer
> versions of CHICKEN, since the old one wouldn't grok commas in the
> options and the new one wouldn't grok separately supplied options.
>
> Perhaps something for CHICKEN 6?

Sorry, I didn't realize Chicken uses separate args instead of one 
comma-separated arg.

In that case, consuming initial arguments while they start with "-:" 
would be a reasonable modification.

The two-character arg "-:" to stop processing is a good idea as well.