Re: Rock that parses command lines?

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone posted an announcement for a rock that takes your
> help string and parses your command line. It turns 'args' into
> a keyed table, e.g. {"-d", "s=specify"} --> {d=true, s="specify"}
> and tests whether the option is documented.

This sounds more or less like the docopt[1] project. Here’s one version of
that for Lua: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.lua.

[1] http://docopt.org/
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