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but lets not mistake that I ever said user should parse the commandline.
it was ruud and some other folks.


Ahhh. You said "instead of using the args parsed for you, parse them yourself from the raw commandline" and I misunderstood.

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how many scripts you figure might break because of it ?



Agree with Jooel - it shouldn't break anything, unless someone is relying on "\\" at the end of an argument being reduced to "\".