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emmelaich on June 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Challenge: Implement CLI interface like that?

Reminds me of apenwarr's option parsing in bup.

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201111

Had you seen that before?

Also, I love it; it's taking DRY to its necessary conclusion.

halst on June 17, 2012 [–]

Quite similar approach. But I think usage-pattern matching is where docopt shines.

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