Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcards Message-ID: <10246@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 19 Mar 90 17:02:03 GMT References: <102618@linus.UUCP> <10210@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 30 In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >In article <10210@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >This should go on my 1.4 (1.5? 2.0?) wish list - that all standard >commands that might want to deal with patterns accept the same regular >expression language, and that filename wildcarding match that. That's an excellent idea, something that will hopefully be real easy for anyone writing a program as long as the pattern matching routines are available as a function call. There should be no excuse on any machine for 4 or 5 different and possibly contradictory ways of doing the same very simple operation. >It'd also be nice if the '#' operator moved to behind the expression where >it belongs, but that's a minor nit. I wondered about that one too, first. But it does make the language more orthogonal; this way, all unary operators are post-fix. Most people are uncomfortable with quote or negation operators as pre-fix, and won't be bothered by # being where it is, even if it's not exactly what a mathematician would expect. >