[minitech]

> which the tool needs to do anyway

It doesn’t. The tool has no command-line arguments.

Please learn how the various shell concepts you’re referencing (like <()) actually work and get back to me if you still need to after that.

In any case, I’m well aware of the readability benefit of named arguments, and was when I made the original comment. So as you can imagine, I maintain that it’s a more than reasonable tradeoff, and I’ve covered the reasons for that. If you have nothing (correct) to add beyond hammering on this point, save it.

[gnull]

You got me, it doesn't have arguments. Luckily, my argument did not critically rely on this bit, and it's still valid. Instead of occasional disconnected thoughts and vulgar attempts to insult, try to construct a complete, coherent argument for why you think your view is valid.

A suggestion on how you could approach it: try to make a table with 2-3 columns for the solutions you and I are comparing. And add a row for each aspect or characteristic you want to compare them with respect to; for example, usability, ease of implementation, room for error, you name it. In each cell, put either + or - if a solution is clearly managing that aspect well or badly, or a detailed comment. Try to express all of the things you're feeling and that are coming to your mind. My comments are written with a table like that in mind, they easily translate to one. Once you have made your table and established that we disagree on what some cell should contain or what rows/columns should be present, feel free to get back to have an actual discussion.

[minitech]

You’ve misrepresented or ignored all of my arguments, which are fairly complete as written. You can reformat them into a table for your personal use if it helps; I haven’t seen evidence that continuing into “an actual discussion” with you on this would have any value. (“It's 2025, dude. You can't be seriously telling me how difficult it is to parse arguments.” was a bad start, and while I’m on it: wrong and right, respectively.)