Frank Heckenbach wrote:
CBFalconer wrote:
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I am arguing that I see no point to the practice, and that stopping all consideration of the source file after the final '.' is desirable. I may well have missed some reason for allowing such practices. Maybe Borland did allow such; if so I never used it and never missed it.
Quite the contrary, actually, i.e. in this case you're on the same side as Borland (and I disagree with you and them ;-).
I guess the millenium HAS arrived!!! :-)
BTW, although such may already exist and I have missed it, it would be handy to have an environment variable to preset default command line options for a gpc installation. This would require another option to ignore that, such as --no-cmdline-defaults, to ignore whatever is in, say "$gpc-cmdline-defaults" :-) An alternative would be the switch "--use-cmdline-defaults" which would avoid any conflicts with existing scripts, etc.
Just a proposal.