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Seems neat, but to be honest, I had a really hard time reading the example because of all the encheferizer text. The funky, hard-to-read text is distracting me from understanding and appreciating the overall simplicity and elegance of things (in a kind of ironic way).

But, aside from that, I'm coveting this right now as I hack away with adding new options to my C++ program...

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I was thinking the exact same thing. I had to read the text out loud in a European chef accent to understand what it was talking about. It really obfuscated the underlying meaning/simplicity of it for me.

You raise a fair point. The only reason I encheferized the readme example was to have a little fun with it, as one of its goals is to demonstrate help screens...but that ends up making the code look like a wall of text no matter what "language" the messages are in.

Anyway, once I think of a better example I'll swap it in. Thanks for your input!

I pray for your sense of humor, and look fondly towards seeing those horridly childish examples removed.

This is quite an elegant piece of software, and your readme is doing it little service.

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