On Mar 01, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >In theory we could use globs as well (some of the modern VCSes permit >glob or regexp syntax), but it's not a serious data loss issue for a >VCS if a mistake is made. You just run the add command again with -f, >or uncommit, or whatever. Granted, a perverse enough user could fail >to add a file, commit, then overwrite the file, but this is much less >serious than the possibility that a particular user would end up as >collateral damage to a spam filter.
globs make sense for file system operations, and we've been using them for decades in shells. I think globs make less sense for header value pattern matching. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
