NAME

Getopt::Chain::Declare - Syntactic sugar for command-line processing like svn and git

SYNPOSIS

    package My::Command;

    use Getopt::Chain::Declare;

    start [qw/ verbose|v /]; # These are "global"
                             # my-command --verbose ...

    # my-command ? initialize ... --> my-command help initialize ...
    rewrite qr/^\?(.*)/ => sub { "help ".($1||'') };

    # NOTE: Rewriting applies to the command sequence, NOT options

    # my-command about ... --> my-command help about
    rewrite [ ['about', 'copying'] ] => sub { "help $1" };

    # my-command initialize --dir=...
    on initialize => [qw/ dir|d=s /], sub {
        my $context = shift;

        my $dir = $context->option( 'dir' )

        # Do initialize stuff with $dir
    };

    # my-command help
    on help => undef, sub {
        my $context = shift;

        # Do help stuff ...
        # First argument is undef because help
        # doesn't take any options
        
    };

    under help => sub {

        # my-command help create
        # my-command help initialize
        on [ [ qw/create initialize/ ] ] => undef, sub {
            my $context = shift;

            # Do help for create/initialize
            # Both: "help create" and "help initialize" go here
        };

        # my-command help about
        on 'about' => undef, sub {
            my $context = shift;

            # Help for about...
        };

        # my-command help copying
        on 'copying' => undef, sub {
            my $context = shift;

            # Help for copying...
        };

        # my-command help ...
        on qr/^(\S+)$/ => undef, sub {
           my $context = shift;
           my $topic = $1;

            # Catch-all for anything not fitting into the above...
            
            warn "I don't know about \"$topic\"\n"
        };
    };

    # ... elsewhere ...

    My::Command->new->run( [ @arguments ] )
    My::Command->new->run # Just run with @ARGV

DESCRIPTION

For more information, see Getopt::Chain