in reply to Getopt::Long
Why bother? Getopt::Long is already nicely simplified - you're just making things more complicated again.
You're always going to have to establish what command line arguments you need to accept, what type they are (required/optional strings, numbers, switches etc) and populate variables or data structures. This is likely to be different for each program and so doesn't warrant another layer of code IMHO.
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