I occassionally use -s in one-off programs. Once I find myself setting more than 3 vars with -s, I switch over to something more suited to the task - usually Getopt::Long, since I like its flexibility.

At one point I was (ab)using -s so much that I wrote a silly module to parse the variables set by -s. The module is pretty boring; code that used it looked like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -s

use Getopt::Sparse;

our ( $foo, $bar ) ;  # set on command line

sparse( foo => [ qw( f foo -foo --foo ) ],
        bar => [ qw( b bar -bar --bar ) ],
      );

print "foo: $foo\nbar: $bar\n" ;
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I've currently got one script that uses that module: the test script for the module.

Fortunately I've found better things to waste my time on these days :)

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