[Issue 10611] Add -h as shorthand for --help

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Thu Jul 11 09:09:08 PDT 2013


http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10611



--- Comment #2 from Wyatt <wyatt.epp at gmail.com> 2013-07-11 09:09:07 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> What's the point of using --help with dmd?
> If you want the help just call dmd with no switches:
> 
> dmd

Honestly?  I had no idea that was the case.  I certainly don't expect that
behaviour, and I question whether many others would either.  I realise that
POSIX doesn't specify -h or --help (I might consider this an oversight on their
part), but one or both are present in most utilities by convention, unlike
printing help in the absence of arguments (which doesn't appear to have any
consistency whatsoever).

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