da Silva, Joe wrote:
CBFalconer wrote:
I vote against any such sweeping change. It is enough to say the --standard-pascal refers to ISO-1.
Opinions seem to be divided on what to do. Until and unless there's an agreement, I'll do nothing about it. ;-)
[Joe da Silva]
The best approach, as someone here suggested, is to first introduce a new flag, such as "--classic-pascal", which is equivalent to the present flag "--standard-pascal" flag, with the recommendation to use this new flag to specify ISO-7185. This way, we are no longer (strongly) inferring that ISO-7185 is the only standard. Later, if most people have adopted the new flag, we can drop the old flag or give a warning that the flag is ambiguous.
In any case, we can definitely do the first part of this change without adversely affecting anyone, so I see no reason not to proceed at least that far.
OK, I'm adding the flag. You do the promotion and tell me when it's time to remove `--standard-pascal'. :-)
(Same for `--{classic/standard}-pascal-level-1', of course.)
Frank