From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-10T19:00:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

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Whoops overlooked one:

You could generalize by saying:
>    * '\x' matches the literal character 'x', even if 'x' is a wildcard
>      character.
>
>
That's exactly not what my implementation does. Since I had the library in
mind as
a way to interact with users who don't know about Regular Expressions, I
wanted
to keep it as simple as possible.

Thus, the Ruby String "fo\\o" fed to the Wildcard class would be equivalent
to /^fo\\o$/
but I'm not sure if that was a wise decision. The reasoning behind it was,
that users woudn't
have to type things like
    C:\\foo\\bar\\goo
but rather only
    C:\foo\bar\goo
since f b and g are no special characters.

Does that make sense? What do you think? Which approach to take or should
there be an option
and if so what's the wiser default?
Greetz!

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