On 2023-11-10 06:04, Thomas Lauer wrote:
> But what they then
> proceeded to do was to have the nosort option sort just a tiny little
> bit anyway, for good measure. In my book that's not an unanticipated use
> case but questionable design.
>
> I am an old-fashioned git and think that an option should do what it
> says on the tin.

Anyway, horse dead, flogging ends here. T

One more lash to the dead horse: It's another example of something being 
'too helpful'. But it's all water under the bridge now. As Bart says, 
too dangerous to tinker in the deepest entrails of the code. Still I do 
dream of zsh 6.0 where old traditions might be questioned, dead code cut 
out, compatibility with extinct shells no longer worried about, and so on.