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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
 "Exclusion on filename expansion" (Dec  7,  1:50pm)
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On Dec 7,  1:50pm, Vin Shelton wrote:
}
} pat="abc~def"
} ls -d *~$pat
}   ==> abc  def  ghi  jkl
} 
} I think that expansion of $pat is happening after globbing

No, but the expansion of $pat is not a pattern unless you make it one.

ls -d *~${~pat}

(the braces are optional in zsh default emulation, used here for clarity).