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Release Name: REL 0.2 with Samples

Notes: The following features are implemented: * required and optional flags * ability to change flag arity from 0 to N * flag value validation -- by set membership -- by regular expression * flag value translation (pre and post validation) * auto help * auto error checking * usage and extended usage flags * universal flag symbol change * case by case flag symbol change (both normal and long form) * alternate forms for normal flag * alternate form for long form flag * auto-generated property-type methods added to ARGV for flag values post-parsing * sub-clause verbs -- 'description' -- 'arity' -- 'no_args' -- 'one_arg' -- 'two_args' -- 'long_form' -- 'translate' -- 'value_matches' -- 'value_in_set' -- 'required' -- 'optional' -- 'alternate_forms' -- 'long_form' -- 'dash_symbol' -- 'long_dash_symbol' The following features are not yet implemented: * universal change to long-form symbol * enforced flag/argument ordering * character flags ('ls -l -f -a' == 'ls -laf') * specification error checking (for ambiguous flags) * system to allow easier user override of help and error messages. * conditionalized flagsets (so that one flag can trigger a recommended flagset. Useful for emulating things like the 'cvs, command set: 'cvs checkout -r ect.')


Changes: * fixed a bug that wouldn't recognize help flag if errors were encountered