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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: 25 Feb 2007 08:18:15 -0600
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In article <6w7iu7a5ur.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de>, Markus E Leypold writes:

> Understand that: This is no question of "how Unix handles the command
> line" ore something like this, but simply a question of a specific
> choice of syntax for "expand this as a wildcard against the file
> system before passing the arguments" taken by the developers of a
> specific (though rather standard) shell, the Bourne shell.
> 
>   '*.*' -> don't expand
>   'abc' -> don't expand
> 
>    abc  -> expand
>    *.*  -> expand


But whether a parameter is a filespec that should be expanded is
something known to the program, and the program should make the
decision in the absence of user override.

Saying the user must specify in all cases is insufficient automation,
analogous to weak typing.