On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Art Mellor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From a user experience standpoint, I think the "Principle of least
> astonishment" would argue it is more of a bug than not
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment

I can't argue with that.

The problem is that the definition of -X relies critically on knowing
the exact package name of the variable being set, which is to say the
path used to import that package.  That works well enough for every
package other than "main".  So one resolution of this problem is to
say that -X does not work reliably with the main package.  Although
unfortunately I feel confident that many people do use -X with main,
so we can hardly make it stop working.

Ian

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