--recursive vs --recurse option

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 29/03/2010 23:24, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> Your gut is right.  “Not recursive” is appropriate in English, but I
> think the “no-” prefix is a general convention for command line options
> in Unix/Linux/GNU that usually ignores the grammatical correctness
> of the resulting option name.  Command line option parsers can then
> automatically handle boolean options after being given only the
> option's “base name”.

Good to know, both grammatically and for the traditional usage, which makes sense.
Thanks!

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