Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?

[Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>]

>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas A Gwyn <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:

    Douglas> It is the application that
    Douglas> *doesn't* explicitly check this, but rather proceeds using
    Douglas> the default result of the globbing, that is the interesting
    Douglas> case.  How often does that result in acceptable behavior?

Rarely, I suspect. The fact that almost no code actually checks for the
no-match case strongly implies that that behaviour is counter-intuitive
to (or perhaps more accurately, unexpected by) most people.

I'm beginning to think that globbing should just come out of the shell.
On most current hardware the cost of spawning `{ls *.foo} is negligible.

--lyndon