2009/4/13 Richard S. Hall <[email protected]>

>  On 4/13/09 4:12 AM, Stuart McCulloch wrote:
>
> 2009/4/13 Richard S. Hall <[email protected]>
>
>> This came up recently and we discussed it within CPEG. Felix is incorrect
>> in interpreting sun.io.* as a match for sun.io.SomeClass.
>>
>
> good to get a definitive answer, will the wildcard wording be improved in
> the 4.2 spec?
>
>  Not sure about that.
>
>
>  In other words, sun.io.* matches sub-packages of sun.io, but not 
> sun.ioitself. This will be corrected in a future version of Felix.
>>
>
> so to match "org.foo" as well as it's sub-packages you should use
> "org.foo,org.foo.*"?
> (because if you use "org.foo*" then that could match against "org.foobar"
> as well...)
>
>
> Yes, but I think only trailing package-level wildcards are supported, e.g.,
> org.foo.*, not org.foo*...
>

ok, I think the 4.2 spec should really spell out what wildcards are
supported and how they match

should I open a bug to track this, or do you want to follow this up with
CPEG?

I could be wrong.
>
> -> richard
>

-- 
Cheers, Stuart
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