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default mode without requiring named arguments

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Description

Surprised if this is not a dup, or documented - but I couldn't find it.

In most of my scripts I have a default behavior, and keyword modifiers, e.g.

```
# Default behavior is adding numbers
# a)
python script 1 2
-> 3

# modified behavior is subtracting numbers
# b)
python script subtract 1 2
-> -2
```

right now I can only get Fire to support keyword behavior, so a) would be
```
python script add 1 2
-> 3

```

I tried writing it all in a class, where the default is the \_\_call\_\_ method:

```
from fire import Fire

@Fire
class script:
@staticmethod
def subtract(a: int, b: int) -> int:
return a - b

@staticmethod
def __call__(a: int, b: int) -> int:
return a + b
```

but in this case I'm only able to call #a it as

```
python script --a=1 --b=2
```

I could of course manually process args, but at that point I might as well just use argparse.

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