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------- Additional Comments From acedit AT armory.com  2007-01-13 22:00 -------
I prefer to err on the side of safety. There have been cases where mis-used 
*'s
expanded to directory listings. It might not currently be possible in [[ ]]'s.

In either the glob matching case or the exact matching case the entire 
variable
must be inspected. So both implementations run in time linear to the length of
the variable. Neither should be significantly different in performance than 
the
other. I haven't seen any numbers, so I dont understand why you've jumped to 
the
conclusion that the iterative version is slower than the glob matching one.

I think the exact matching case is actually clearer than the glob matching 
case.
The glob version you have to notice the carefully places *'s. The other one is
more akin to "traditional" data structures.

Furthermore, its easier to prove the exact matching case is "correct". In the
glob matching version the user can throw in their own patterns, or more 
likely,
have to backquote their patterns to avoid false matches. In reality no one 
will
do that, as a result that would open things up to many potential bugs. Exact
matching avoids that issue.

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