Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW any comments about the dots ? Requiring escaped dots in domains would > become old really fast, reversing behaviour (\. = any char) would be against > the principle of least surprise, since any other regexp syntax does use the > opposite.
Modifying the dot to only match a dot might be useful for "domain" patterns, but I suspect it's not easy to implement. I don't think such a thing is necessary in practice, though; remember that even if you don't escape the dot, it still matches the (intended) dot, along with other characters. So for quick&dirty usage not escaping dots will "just work", and those who want to be precise can escape them. > Either way pure windows users will be confused (*.html instead of > .*\.html), Increased expressive power will hopefully outweigh the confusion. After all, people who use Wget on Windows are hardly typical Windows users. :-) > but personally I don't think permitting yet another alternate syntax > (using globs) is justified, and a syntax using exclusively globs > would be too limited. My thoughts exactly.
