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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CLI/shells
Message-ID: <8805092047.AA18301@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 May 88 20:47:02 GMT
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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.

	Huh?  Where'd that come from?  '*' means 'match anything'.  There
never was, and never will be a '?' after it, unless you want 
'match anything but it had better be at least one character', as in:
	charlie*?  would NOT match charlie, but would match charlie

					-Matt