Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Serving * does not work

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:52:26AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > Hrm.  Do you have any better suggestions?  There just aren't that many
> > plausible pattern matching syntaxes out there, AFAIK...
> 
> SQL "like" syntax!
> 
> monotone server %

Err, hmm, of course.  I guess it'd be easy to switch to this, we parse
the globs by hand anyway -- just switch which character we scan for.

Straw poll?  % vs. *?

-- Nathaniel

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