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Re: Support for boolean queries in apropos



On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:24:42AM +0530, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
> I apologize but I lost the context a bit here, what do you mean by the
> minus operator ? If you mean to represent the boolean NOT operator
> using a '-' then I think it makes sense, easy to type and succinct as
> well.

No, using "-" to present binary not is a bad choice. apropos uses
getopt and requiring the use of "--" to terminate the option list is a
bad idea.

Joerg


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