From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-10T18:48:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

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> Note that these are known as "glob patterns" -- you might want to update
> your documentation accordingly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_pattern)
>

Ah, thx, I've been searching for the correct name of these but couldn't find
it.
The only thing I've ever heard was "Wildcard".


>
> Also, your rdocs seem to be missing a few backslashes:
>
>    * '?' matches a single character
>    * '*' matches any number of characters, including 0
> (1) * '*' matches a literal '*'
>    * '\?' matches a literal '?'
> (2) * '\' matches a literal '\'
>
> 1 should be: '\*' matches a literal '*'
> 2 should be: '\\' matches a literal '\'
>
> You could generalize by saying:
>    * '\x' matches the literal character 'x', even if 'x' is a wildcard
>      character.
>

I'll do that.


>
> You haven't implemented bracket expressions:  '[cb]at*' should match
> 'catch' and 'batch' but not 'match'
>

I'll look into that.

Thanks for the feedback!

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