[Python-Dev] Reserving an arg space for Jython

[Michael Foord]

Frank Wierzbicki wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Works for me. We should have a patch to CPython that looks for -J and
>>>       
>>  >  rejects it with "-J is reserved for Jython".
>>  >
>>
>>  Do we want it to be Jython-specific, or should it be available to any
>>  alternative VM? I don't know if the IronPython folks need anything for
>>  .NET, but maybe they would like one?
>>     
> -X was suggested on Jython's irc.  I kind of like -J, but -X would
> work for us too.
>   

IronPython has a host of -X:Something command line switches - so 
reserving -X would be helpful.

Michael Foord

> -Frank
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