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Do you think we will ever add back subscopes to the _cli_, like `./pants fmt.isort`? I want to simplify our argument parsing so that we treat `file.ext` as a file arg rather than as a goal

there is a cluster of tickets on that topic

in short: “maybe”, but it’s possible that we could skip that scope syntax. a downside is that that is the syntax of the scopes in `pants.toml`

i guess that technically, since it is toml, you could introduce the toml syntax as
```[fmt]
isort = {
    option = ..
}```
so that the name of the scope was less obviously `[fmt.isort]`