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2016-07-15 20:56 GMT+02:00 Peter Aronoff <telemachus@arpinum.org>:
> 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.

Thnaks, that isn't it, but noticing that it requires Penlight toggled my
memory. What I was looking for is the 'optparse' submodule in stdlib.