Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
From: Bart Schaefer <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 08:40:42 -0700
List-Id: Zsh Workers List <zsh-workers.zsh.org>

On Mar 22,  9:46am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: PATCH: short-circuiting glob exclusion operator
}
} On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:54:21 -0700
} Bart Schaefer <[email-masked]> wrote:
} > 
} > As Mikael has already pointed out, files with names ending in a tilde
} > followed by an exclusion pattern may cause trouble with this.
} 
} Yes, they do: [...]
} 
} ~# might work instead.

Maybe this should be a glob qualifier instead of a pattern, since it does
not make sense in generic pattern context.  We have Y3 to short-circuit
after 3 matches; perhaps Y~ to short-circuit when an exclusion matches?
Or are qualifiers also parsed too late?