Stop shell wildcard character expansion?

Question

Is there any way for a compiled command-line program to tell bash or csh that it does not want any wildcard characters in its parameters expanded?

For instance, one

Answer 1

Beware: if there are no names matching the mask, bash passes the argument as-is, without expansion!

Proof (pa.py is a very simple script, which just prints its arguments):

 $ ls
f1.cc  f2.cc  pa.py
 $ ./pa.py *.cc
['./pa.py', 'f1.cc', 'f2.cc']
 $ ./pa.py *.cpp
['./pa.py', '*.cpp']