Re: [Boost-users] [string_algo] wildcard support?

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-10 14:29:09

Hi,

Andriy Tylychko (mail.ru) wrote:
> 
> 
> To community and especially to Pavol Droba as the author of string_algo:
> What do you think about popularity of wildcards as the tool for end-users?
> Is it worth to add wildcards support to the library? To what library? Is the
> boost-development mailing list a better place for this discussion?

I can only express my personal opinion here and that is : the wildcards
should not be a directly supported in string_algo library.

Reason is simple: the functionality provided by wildcards is superseeded
by regex in all respects. In addition, as you have explained in your 
previous mail, it is easy to convert a wildcard to a regex.

I can't say if the support could be incorporated into Boost.Regex.
This library already support several syntaxes, so wildcards could be
just another variant. But this is more question to John Maddock.

You can also try to cleanup your conversion utility and offer it to 
boost, to get a response from whole comunity.

Regards,
Pavol