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Re: completion

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: completion
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:28:56 +0000
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:01:09 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2014-12-11 11:34:20 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
> > Anyway, knowing that the star replaces the colons cracks it open.
> 
> This is a bit old, but... When can an asterisk replace a colon?

Colons aren't special to pattern matching at all.

> If an asterisk can match anything, there may be an ambiguity on
> which field some given word will match.

Yes, they are ambiguous.  The examples probably could do with fixing.

With some of the more complicated things you can do, this can actually
be hard to work around, I seem to remember.

pws

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