I'm a big fan of using Getopt in my command line programs. What I've become a little dissatisfied with the organization of the flags and variables. I'm looking for some input here from the monks on organizational tips. I'll post a sample of the code style I normally use. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my $showos=0;
my $showrel=0;
my $showarch=0;
my $showiface=0;
my $showhd=0;
my $showmem=0;
my $showuser=0;


GetOptions (
        "os|o"=>\$showos,
        "rel|r"=>\$showrel,
        "arch|a"=>\$showarch,
        "iface|i"=>\$showiface,
        "hd|h"=>\$showhd,
        "mem|m"=>\$showmem,
        "user|u"=>\$showuser,
        "all|A"=> sub { $showos = 1; $showrel = 1; $showarch = 1; $sho
+wiface = 1; $showhd = 1; $showmem = 1; $showuser = 1; },
        "help|h"        => sub { &help; exit 0; }
);
. . .

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Maybe this is already the best pattern to use, but it just looks kind of ugly to me. Any ideas would be appreciated.

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In reply to GetOpt Organization by KurtSchwind

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