Re: globbing bug, 3.0.6

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:

> > I don't want to change this in 3.0.8 unless it's also changing in 3.1.7
> > or soon thereafter.  What's the verdict on this one, folks?  Apparently
> > bash behaves as zsh does now, but that's not a conclusive argument.
> 
> I hesitate to reply, since I seem to be missing something, but as far as
> I'm concerned, zsh 3.1.7 just uses straightforward character range
> comparisons (not POSIX collation) with ordinary ranges such as [A-Z], but
> uses whatever the system tells it with special classes such as [[:upper:]]
> (this comes straight from ctype, not the zsh type macros), and this has
> been the case for the past couple of versions.  Does anyone have evidence
> to the contrary? 

;-) I didn't reply to Andrej's reply to my mail because I had a look
at pattern.c after that and found the same.

And no, I've never seen that behaviour myself, but I don't use locales 
anyway, so... The only thing that's really still there is the call to
strcoll() in the sorting function in glob.c.

> Barring a new option, is that the best default behaviour?
> Does anyone want an option POSIX_RANGES to restore full POSIX behaviour,
> despite the drawbacks?

Personally I don't care about conformance to any standard (in this
respect, at least) or compatibility to other shells. I just wanted say 
that /if/ we do it, we should make it configurable and shouldn't make
it the default.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de