[GRASS-dev] g.mlist sep= or fs= ?

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> Yann Chemin wrote:
> > +1 for separator=
> 
> sounds good to me. one less acronym for people to learn (especially for
> non-native speakers I imagine it can be a bit mysterious sometimes)

Something to bear in mind when choosing option names:

In 7.0, the option could be called "field_separator", for which e.g. 
"fs" or "fsep" would be valid abbreviations (but not e.g. "sep" or
"separator", as the first letter of the first word is required).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>