Kids these days .... :-)

Although, I bet if you had called it a regular expression - they might have understood. My SW professional daughter learned about regular expressions in the CS theory course a couple of years ago. It was an "ah ha moment" for her. I had tried to teach her 'globing' years early (unsuccessfully at the time). But she remembered enough of the lesson it turns out.

Clem

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

by the way ... I just put a patch into a repo and my documentation said 'the name is in glob format' and got dinged by some reviewers: "what is glob"?

I blame our education system :-)

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
This is matches my memory/was the way I learned it - ie glob was just short for "global" (expression).

Steve / Doug any memories?

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> From: Ron Minnich

> Why was it called glob? I always wondered.

Something about global expressions.

I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7

but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen it,
alas...

Noel