opts(3pm)

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💅 opts — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is opts(3pm), a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. and girl… it's a short one. like, blink-and-you-miss-it short. but we're still gonna give it the full main-character treatment because every manpage deserves love. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

opts — a simple command line option parser. that's the whole vibe.

oh and also? it's (DEPRECATED). so… read the next section before you get attached. 🙈

💀 DESCRIPTION 💀

bestie I need you to sit down for this one.

THIS MODULE WAS DEPRECATED. USE Smart::Options INSTEAD.

that's it. that's the entire description. no explanation, no cute backstory, no "here's why" — just all caps yelling from beyond the grave. it's giving ghosted by your own dependency. 😭

so fr fr: if you were about to use opts; in your code, don't. go grab Smart::Options instead and pretend this never happened. lowkey iconic of whoever wrote this to just scream it in caps instead of gently breaking the news. periodt.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this masterpiece was brought to you by:

  • Kan Fushihara <kan.fushihara at gmail.com>

give them their flowers. 💐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the squad, the friend group, the "if you liked this you should also check out":

  • Smart::Options — the glow-up replacement, the one you should actually be using ✨
  • Smart::Args
  • Getopt::Long — the classic, the legend, the one everybody's heard of 💅

and that's a wrap on opts(3pm), babes. this page came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — so yeah, this deprecated little gem has been sitting in the docs since before some of us could even read. 💀 rest in peace, opts. you were simple. you were deprecated. you were unforgettable. 🎀🦋

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