[Python-Dev] Reserving an arg space for Jython

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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.