Jan. 15, 2015
3:58 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Ooh that would be a nice feature. I'd be inclined to call it --query rather than --dry-run, but that's just bike-shedding.
Sometimes bike-shedding has a bad reputation. Option names should reflect what they do. --dry-run suggests that it will run the script except for anything destructive (e.g. writing or deleting files, printing a 300 page report). --query is better, but query what?
"Just" bike-shedding means that I support the feature, and think it's a great idea, but all it needs is a different name. And you're right, --which-executable would be better than --query. ChrisA