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 There are many command line argument parsing libraries for Go, including one in the standard library, so why build another?
 
-The `flag` library that ships in the standard library seems awkward to me. Positional arguments must preceed options, so `./prog x --foo=1` does what you expect but `./prog --foo=1 x` does not. It also does not allow arguments to have both long (`--foo`) and short (`-f`) forms.
+The `flag` library that ships in the standard library seems awkward to me. Positional arguments must precede options, so `./prog x --foo=1` does what you expect but `./prog --foo=1 x` does not. It also does not allow arguments to have both long (`--foo`) and short (`-f`) forms.
 
 Many third-party argument parsing libraries are great for writing sophisticated command line interfaces, but feel to me like overkill for a simple script with a few flags.