On Jun 26, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:50:34PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>   | > As far as prior art for the matching rules goes, I believe our
>   | > matching rules are compatible with AFS, although we use  
> different
>   | > variables than AFS does.
>   |
>   | what i'm not happy with the matching rule is the lack of the  
> explicit
>   | "end of variable name" character.
>   | eg. we can't do "ln -s '${foo}-something' something".
>
> I agree with this valid concern.

I will consider adding an alternate syntax.  However, you can still  
do something-@foo ... which makes a lot more sense from a visual  
sorting point of view.

-- thorpej