Re: Getopt::Declare replacement?

[revdiablo]

Perhaps take a look at Pod::Usage. It's even a core module as of Perl 5.6

Update: Ah, I missed that you want argument parsing too. Pod::Usage works fine in conjunction with Getopt::Long, though if you want an all-in-one, it may not be what you're looking for.

[atcroft]

There is even a tutorial, written by ybiC, on using Getopt::Long and Pod::Usage together, located in the Tutorials section.

HTH....

[QM]

Argument parsing and checking also serves as the documentation.

Don't get me wrong, your pointer to the tutorial is excellent.

I was just hoping that actually specifying the option spec would create the pod, or vice-versa. I prefer to define everything once and only once. This includes the strings used in the options spec, which are also used in the usage, and in the documentation (if I can wedge them in everywhere) -- I usually put those in variables, and reuse them or derive other stuff from them. I use string variables and use strict vars so that if I misspell something, it's a variable name, and it's caught by Perl, instead of my curmudgeonly user.

I also realize that I can't have everything. (If it was easy, someone else would have a solution in the core already :) So I should spend some time and see if I can make pod work the same way as G:D.

I'm also lazy in that I'm trying to combine usage and documentation. I should probably cut back on the usage, and split out the documentation. If I put the full docs into a sub, one of the options can call it. (Or I can go the pod2usage route...though in some sense that's got the same trouble in reverse.)

[john_oshea]

Maybe Getopt::Euclid? From the synopsis:

Getopt::Euclid uses your program's own documentation to create a command-line argument parser. This ensures that your program's documented interface and its actual interface always agree.