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Comments: In reply to Aaron Davies <agdavi01@louisville.edu>
        "Re: Globbing for Empty Directories?" (Mar 28,  6:55pm)
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On Mar 28,  6:55pm, Aaron Davies wrote:
}
} > So even if zsh implemented an "empty directory" globbing flag
} > internally, it'd be doing effectively the same thing as the function
} > I showed.
} 
} Alright then. It'd still be a nice thing to have in zsh. Is it a policy 
} that globbing be limited to things the filesystem can tell you directly?

I wouldn't say its "a policy", but so far it is a truism, AFAIK.