Re: Proposal

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > // And perhaps some globbing: > // Import any variable with abc in its name from anywhere. > // Could alternatively use SQL-style or perhaps real regex > // expressions here although I think full regex support would be > // slightly overkill and perhaps too confusing for people. > import_globals("GPCES","*abc*"); This sounds brilliant. Would something glob(3)bish be a bad idea? I could imagine that 1) more people are familiar with it than with regexs 2) it'd be easier to grasp in the first place > -Rasmus -- <----------------------------------------------------------------------> Heikki Korpela -- heko@iki.fi -- http://iki.fi/heko/