Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mtunx!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxo!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CLI/shells Message-ID: <1949@sugar.UUCP> Date: 8 May 88 23:36:11 GMT References: <8805070851.AA04063@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 15 In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: [ He said "*? type wildcards are more general than #?". ] > I said: > >#? is more general than *?, since # is actually a closure operator... > When I want 'everything', I don't want to have to type two > characters to get it. So what you mean is that *? is easier for the more common cases. It is not, however, more general. And it conflicts with standard usage (* == Input() and * being used as an escape) which is *already* way too overloaded. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.