Re: Globbing

[haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)]

> Is this for `cultural compatibility' or do people want it this way?

i want it this way:
	+ it matches my instict
	+ it's rc (and sh) compatible
	+ it's easy to understand and explain

> I
> don't like it, because it leads to disturbing error messages when I
> say rm *.^(aux dvi log toc idx ind) for example.

use rm -f.

> But since we will
> probably never agree on what should happen, maybe I might suggest
> adding a hook?  Yes, another feeping creature.  The hook might be
> called with any unmatched wildcard containing names as arguments, and
> whatever it returns will be substituted in its place.  Then the
> current behaviour can be gotten by assigning $&result to this hook; I
> might wish to assign {result ()} to it; and others might want the hook
> to throw an error (even I might want that behaviour locally, in some
> functions) or send mail to their Congress Creature.

opinions?  i'd prefer not to add this
	%glob-failure
hook, but i guess i could live with it.  (and it would appease those
former csh-users who want *: no match.  somebody wanted ignoreeof,
maybe somebody wants nomatch?  i don't know.  sheesh, we never should
have advertised customizability.)

i have no strong feelings on the matter.

paul