Re: Proposal

At 00:27 29/07/2001, Heikki Korpela wrote:

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

I believe so. I think we should only be using a simple prefix glob. It's the simplest one to understand, and the least prone to human errors. Zeev