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+# Sing
+
+**S**td
+**I**/o
+**N**egotiator
+**G**enerator
+
+## What is sing meant to be?
+
+This crate is meant to create interfaces between traits in Rust libraries and the command line.
+It does this by providing two macros: …
+
+## Negotiator? Really?
+
+Yes, it's somewhat far-fetched, but I really wanted to be able to sing and [clap](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/tree/master/src) in my rusty command-line projects.
+
+## Why the name?
+
+See above.
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