Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

Re:Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019) by _carbyau_ on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:20PM (#26744974)

I can kind of see it as an ASCII art flowchart line.

IE a line to indicate use of this option and a line with a strikethrough to indicate it has been "struck out" as an option.

But using the conventional minus and plus symbols is indeed confusing.

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Re:Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019) by saurik on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:42PM (#26745149)

I mean, if you want to undo subtracting something, you add it? The only reason I ever found it confusing is that it was "backwards", but that feels like a forced error due to + requiring a shift while - doesn't.

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