This stubborn attitude to refuse to consult the documentation at all and then expect the tool to work according to your preconceptions.
Tools do have rough edges, if you don't want to learn about them, you will get bitten.
Tools do have rough edges, if you don't want to learn about them, you will get bitten.
Yes it’s in the docs. Yes people who carefully read the docs won’t get bitten. Also yes the design could be improved so people don’t make this mistake even without reading the docs.
Both things can be true. We’re currently only talking about the latter, though.
I'm surprised, as i started this subthread explicitly to contest that the argv join is "hidden".
The only thing it adds is insecurity.
If the feature didn’t exist, then it wouldn’t need to be documented, and the world would be better.
Bugs can be fixed.
I presume you consider INTERCAL to be a sanely designed programming language.
Edit: The INTERCAL handbook is a great read, and despite being satirical, it is more detailed and qualified than the documentation of some other popular projects.