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I consider single letter flags only to be a mistake. There should almost always be a verbose double-dash option.

I get it, most of the tooling which uses single letters is totally ossified due to backwards compatibility reasons. However, the sudors team is already breaking backwards compat. Now is the time to make a minor usability improvement.

[somat]

I consider double-dashes to be a mistake. hell, after a few drinks and quiet thought I consider single dashes to be a mistake. Perhaps the dd arg=val form is actually the ideal argv method after all. What if getopt was all a huge mistake. And then I sober up and realize they are just dashes, useless but harmless, not a thing worth worrying about.

And then you have the absolutely inane doubledash --arg=value format. Way to carry a bad idea to it's logical conclusion guys. somebody drunk their getopt kool-aid that morning. just get rid of the stupid dashes if you are going to do that.