From 1e45c58ca22f8c0564fb79497da957650f89e6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mira Okafor <mira@example.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 20:31:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] cli: accept the name as a positional argument

`hello-hut Ada` reads better than `hello-hut --name Ada`.
---
 README.md            | 4 +++-
 src/hello_hut/cli.py | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b65dd952f84e8d5364dc014b80a5059f8173a51e..563463e26dd004cda10b13e5a64077b68bccb7f6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ hello — and that is all it does.
 ## Usage
 
 ```console
-$ hello-hut --name Ada
+$ hello-hut
+Hello, friend!
+$ hello-hut Ada
 Hello, Ada!
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/hello_hut/cli.py b/src/hello_hut/cli.py
index 69398d0dd94f4cacf1a6985ecd337688d65a30a9..9110eb394310a53122d8e131c3e593abd80647a3 100644
--- a/src/hello_hut/cli.py
+++ b/src/hello_hut/cli.py
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ def build_parser():
         prog="hello-hut",
         description="A friendly greeting tool for your terminal.",
     )
-    parser.add_argument("--name", default=DEFAULT_NAME,
-                        help="who to greet (default: %(default)s)")
+    parser.add_argument("name", nargs="?", help="who to greet")
     parser.add_argument("--version", action="version",
                         version=f"%(prog)s {__version__}")
     return parser
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ def build_parser():
 
 def main(argv=None):
     args = build_parser().parse_args(argv)
-    name = args.name
+    name = args.name or DEFAULT_NAME
 
     message = greet(name)
     print(message)