DESCRIPTION

    EXPERIMENTAL WORK.

    This module (GLEL for short) is a reimplementation of Getopt::Long (GL
    for short), but with much less features. It's an even more stripped
    down version of Getopt::Long::Less (GLL for short) and is perhaps less
    convenient to use for day-to-day scripting work.

    The main goal is minimum amount of code and small startup overhead.
    This module is an experiment of how little code I can use to support
    the stuffs I usually do with GL.

    Compared to GL and GLL, it:

      * does not have Configure()

      Nothing to configure, no different modes of operation. GLEL is
      equivalent to GL in this mode: bundling, no_ignore_case,
      no_getopt_compat, gnu_compat, permute.

      * does not support increment (foo+)

      * no type checking (foo=i, foo=f, foo=s all accept any string)

      * does not support optional value (foo:s), only no value (foo) or
      required value (foo=s)

      * does not support desttypes (foo=s@)

      * does not support handler other than coderef (so no "foo=s" =>
      \$scalar, "foo=s" => \@ary, only "foo=s" => sub { ... })

      Also, in coderef handler, code will get a simple hash instead of a
      "callback" object as its first argument.

      * does not support hashref as first argument

      * does not support bool/negation (no foo!, so you have to declare
      both foo and no-foo manually)

    The result?

    Amount of code. GLEL is about 175 lines of code, while GL is about
    1500. Sure, if you really want to be minimalistic, you can use this
    single line of code to get options:

     @ARGV = grep { /^--([^=]+)(=(.*))?/ ? ($opts{$1} = $2 ? $3 : 1, 0) : 1 } @ARGV;

    and you're already able to extract --flag or --opt=val from @ARGV but
    you also lose a lot of stuffs like autoabbreviation, --opt val syntax
    support syntax (which is more common, but requires you specify an
    option spec), custom handler, etc.

    Startup overhead. Here's a sample startup overhead benchmark:

    # COMMAND: perl devscripts/bench-startup 2>&1

SEE ALSO

    Getopt::Long

    Getopt::Long::Less

    If you want more features intead of less, try Getopt::Long::More.

