[Python-Dev] Reserving an arg space for Jython

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.