This kind of redundancy has never really bothered me. I
usually use Getopt::Long in conjunction with Pod::Usage and
my 'skeleton' usually looks like:
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;
our ($user,$pass,$numb,$help);
GetOptions(
'user|u=s' => \$user,
'pass|p=s' => \$pass,
'numb|n=i' => \$numb,
'help|h|?' => \$help,
);
$numb ||= 42;
pod2usage(-verbose=>2) if $help;
pod2usage(-verbose=>1) unless $user and $pass;
__END__
Considering that the variables used to hold user options are
being shared across two (or more) packages, this doesn't
seem overly redundant to me. But that's just me. ;)
UPDATE: hmmm, here is something evil:
our ($user,$pass,$numb,$help);
my @tmpl = (
'user|u=s',
'pass|p=s',
'numb|n=i',
'help|h|?',
);
@tmpl = map {"'$_' => \\\$@{[(split('\|',$_))[0]]},"} @tmpl;
eval "GetOptions(@tmpl);";
jeffa
L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)