optparse docs

[tobiah]

In
	http://docs.python.org/lib/optparse-terminology.html

The GNU project introduced "-" followed by a series of hyphen-separated 
words, e.g. "-file" or "-dry-run". These are the only two option 
syntaxes provided by optparse.

And later:

Some other option syntaxes that the world has seen include:

     * a hyphen followed by a few letters, e.g. "-pf" (this is not the 
same as multiple options merged into a single argument)

     * a hyphen followed by a whole word, e.g. "-file" (this is 
technically equivalent to the previous syntax, but they aren't usually 
seen in the same program)

So my question is whether the first 'GNU' version, was not meant to be
--file, and --dry-run?

Thanks,

Toby

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