- From: Ashley Sanders <zzaascs@irwell.mimas.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:08:53 +0100
- To: www-zig@w3.org
> > If you really want the "?" semantics you described above, I would
> > suggest using different metacharacters to avoid giving the misleading
> > impression that the wildcard patterns have their familiar meanings.
> Good idea.
I don't see a problem with re-using meta-characters across
truncation attributes. If we use different characters for
every type of truncation then we'll be running out of
characters before too long. Most OSes and users seem to
get along fine with the different meaning of "?" in
grep/perl/etc and filename globbing at the command line.
Ashley.
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