ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Russ Allbery]

Tim Roberts <troberts at bigfoot.com> writes:

> I have no issues with the different options (brackets, slashes, etc)
> however I find the matching 'rightmost wins' very confusing .  Is there
> any reason why it can't simply be stated that a string needs to match
> ALL components to be considered a match (which is staight forward, easy
> to explain and easy to understand)?

Because that's not what any existing wildmat implementation does.  You're
correct that this would be a much easier-to-explain pattern matching
language, but it wouldn't be wildmat as currently implemented, nor would
it be as powerful as wildmat is.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>