From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1244 invoked from network); 12 Jan 1998 17:33:19 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 12 Jan 1998 17:33:19 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA05458; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:14:10 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:14:10 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199801121710.RAA13626@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh 3.x: <..> ranges in globbing To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:10:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu, zsh@peak.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrej Borsenkow" at Jan 12, 98 07:16:55 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Headers: in preparation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"LCiAR.0.DL1.Xzakq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3685 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Andrej Borsenkow wrote: >I am not sure, that it is right thing. The can (always?) be >rewritten using plain extended regular expression. Yes, we should always handle it properly, as if this were done. >Actually, what about replacing "ad hoc" code in ZSH by direct translation >into normal regexp? It will probably be faster (who knows) I suspect that it will make little performance difference in the majority of cases. It would, however, cause serious portability problems, if we tried to use the system's regexp library. Many regexp libraries don't actually have the power of zsh glob patterns for patten matching, to say nothing of **/. and will give >ZSH full power to support i18n In what respect? -zefram