perlrun.pod lies :)

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

perlrun (for 5.005_02) says that switch processing, when using the is
switch to Perl, stops upon reaching the argument --.

That's not entirely true.  It stops when it reaches an argument BEGINNING
with '--':

  % perl -s prog -foo -bar -this-works --this-stops processing

Now, that isn't documented as working so.  Should it be, or should Perl's
command-line argument reading be changed?  I'd think it would just be
changing the documentation, so as not to fsck up other people's programs.

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