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Re: completion

On Jan 7, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And used as a sort of 'wildcard', that would be fine, *but*
> it shouldn't change the number of separators:
> 
> kill (  :Ray:*:*:Montreal:*:*: )

How is this any better than just having empty fields?

This might be an issue in an academic sense, and the documentation should certainly be cleared up, but I'd imagine that anyone actually doing this sort of complex matching would write out the empty fields instead of playing games with asterisks.

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