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Option handling

Option handling is a highly individual part of software design. CPAN provides numerous modules which solve this task in several ways. This reflects the very different preferences of various people, and we do not want to restrict anyone in this field. On the other hand, PerlPoint will be obviously easier to use if its several converters provide similar working interfaces. For this reason, the following conventions are established:

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