Meaning of "--no-foo"

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 5/14/2011 10:19 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> ‘--no-remember’ implies, to me, that the default “remember”
> behaviour will not happen *on this one command*. I would be
> unpleasantly surprised if that option caused previously remembered
> settings to be wiped.
>
>> It seems to me that "--no-foo" should mean just what it says:
>> "don't do foo".

Agreed. The option is a boolean which can have one of two states. The
default is either true or false, whatever that may be. If you want to
*force* the option to true, you use --option. If you want to *force*
the option to false, you use --no-option. That to me is the most logical.

Ciao,
Gordon


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