Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!arcsun!kenw From: kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 17:51:39 GMT References: <19217@cbmvax.commodore.com> <5573:Feb2307:19:4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <00085@meph.UUCP> <5946:Mar1122:11:0691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: nobody@arc.ab.ca (Absolutely Nobody) Followup-To: comp.os.misc Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary Alberta, Canada Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 11 Mar 91 22:11:06 GMT In article <5946:Mar1122:11:0691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > ... > This has nothing to do with globbing... > ... > This pattern-matching has nothing to do with globbing.... > ... I thought this topic was about dead, but people are still making what to me are new and very valid points -- including yours, Dan. But I still see people saying something "has nothing to do with globbing" when they probably mean something more like "isn't a direct result of globbing". Please, folks, let's not forget that the very existence of shell globbing in an environment has a lot of indirect repercussions which cannot reasonably be ignored. And while we're at it, let's remember that we're not just talking about Unix here. I'm beginning to think that what we _really_ need is the Object Oriented Operating System. It would certainly make this discussion obsolete. Anybody want to play with that one? -- /kenw Ken Wallewein A L B E R T A kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca <-- replies (if mailed) here, please R E S E A R C H (403)297-2660 C O U N C I L