also sprach Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> [2009.05.05.1809 +0200]:
> Oddly, here I get
> 
> -a 1 -a 2
> 
> and the last issue was only because I forgot to use a -- after print -l.

Like the other bug, it's probable that I had polluted my shell. This
works as expected now. Sorry, Clint.

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