From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T01:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Facets 0.6.3

On 4/22/05, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not that it matters, but I'm (also) against naming files using a
> > meta-char (i.e. "?")  in arguably the most ubiquitous shells in use
> > today.
> 
> I find this curious becuase we dela with this kind of thing all the
> time in regexp --the need to escape certain characters b/c of their
> special meaning. So in the case of file names couldn't ? and * be
> escaped just as easily?

They *can* be escaped, but why force that need on your users when
there's no good reason to?