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Why are Quotes necessay here?

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Why are Quotes necessay here?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:56:51 +0100
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Hi,

Not necessarily just zsh, and may be I'm being thick today, but why are the double quotes around
the $1* necessary here?

Was the star otherwise being expanded?

elif builtin cd "$1*" &> /dev/null ;

without quotes I get

 no matches found: raynin*

I have 
setopt localoptions nonomatch

zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
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