[Sbcl-devel] Toggling brackets-as-a-wildcard-character behavior?

[CRLF0710 <crl...@gm...>]

Hi, we have noticed that when you include bracket characters in the
filename component of a pathname object (or a string), WILD-PATHNAME-P will
return true.

I knew this is a feature, but... brackets are usually legal characters in
filenames in many filesystems, and when dealing with them,  it's really
easy to involve bugs. You'll have to use parse-native-namestring to convert
such a string to pathname, which forbids the use of other wildcard
characters in other places and also encourages writing non-portable code.

I think it is possible to include a boolean variable (in the sb-impl
package) to toggle this. When we turn this feature off, we can recognize
brackets as normal characters.  It is convenient and doesn't break
compability.

Is that a good idea?

Regards,
Charles Lew.
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CrLF.0710