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Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2007 06:43:30 +0200
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Subject: [9fans] Inferno shell
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The Inferno shell man page says about a leading caret in a [ ] class:

	(As this character is special to the shell, it may only be
	included in a pattern if this character is quoted, as long as
	the leading [ is not quoted).

It seems to me that treating the unquoted leading string [^ as a
"token" would be a better alternative.  Would it be very difficult to
implement this rather than expect all exclusive classes to start ['^ ?
I presume it is a question of where in the parsing the [ and ^ take
precedence?

++L