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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
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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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.
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