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

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:40:41 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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))'."
> 
> However, I can't immediately think of any reason why a paren should be
> considered part of a "trailing set" when nothing precedes it ...

No, and that quote says "*part* of the glob pattern".  I think the patch
is probably the right way to go.

pws