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/** @page glossary Glosary

    <dl>
    <dt>Token</dt><dd>A single whitespace-separated part of
    command line. In other words, an element of <tt>argv</tt> array.</dd>

    <dt>Option</dt><dd>No definition yet. Options typically correspond to
    (name, value) pair. Then can spawn several tokens.</dd>

    <dt>Argument</dt><dd>No definition yet.</dd>

    <dt>Command line element</dt><dd>A complete part of command line. May
    be either option or argument.</dd>

    <dt>Parameter</dt><dd>The syntantic element which specify value of the
    option</dd>

    </dl>
*/