-v anomaly?

[David Relson]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:09:06 -0800
Greg McCann wrote:

> On 1/28/2004 at 8:38 PM David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> >'Tis true.  When it comes time to print the message and its
> >statistics, passthrough ('-p') counts as 1 level of verbosity ('-v').
> 
> Thank you, David.  Now that I understand it was intentional, I can
> live with it.  (Though someone, someday might get confused as I did.) 
> I just wanted to be sure that the seeming discrepancy wasn't me doing
> something wrong.
> 
> >If the code is changed, then "-p -v" is equivalent to "-p" which
> >doesn't seem too useful.
> 
> That particular combination would indeed be redundant, though one
> might question whether that is any worse than having -p unexpectedly
> add a level of verbosity to a -v option.
> 
> If the code is left as-is, it might be helpful to add a note to the
> documentation of the -v options...
> 
> "Note:  If -p is used together with a -v option, it counts as one
> additional level of verbosity."

With the added clause "when printing results".  The difference being
that "-x d -vv" can be used to turn on debug flag 'd' at verbosity level
2 -- a situation that '-p' doesn't affect.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Greg McCann
> 
>