Re: [PATCH] don't treat alone grouping pattern as glob qualifier

[Han Pingtian <hanpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:40:41AM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Nov 17,  1:24pm, Han Pingtian wrote:
> }
> } Looks like the alone grouping pattern (s*) is treated as qualifier.
> 
> That would be correct according to the documentation ... anything in
> parens that can't be distinguished from a qualifier, is a qualifier,
> unless you unsetopt BARE_GLOB_QUAL.
> 
> "A glob subexpression that would normally be taken as glob qualifiers,
> for example `(^x)', can be forced to be treated as part of the glob
> pattern by doubling the parentheses, in this case producing `((^x))'."
> 

Thanks.

> However, I can't immediately think of any reason why a paren should be
> considered part of a "trailing set" when nothing precedes it ...

Yes, because there is nothing before (s*), it wouldn't be treated as
qualifiers, I think.