Bug#881892: perl-base: File::Glob(3perl) bsd_glob does not document DEFAULT_FLAGS
Niko Tyni
ntyni at debian.org
Thu Nov 16 09:29:13 UTC 2017
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:40:10PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Tim Connors wrote:
> > In the one argument form of File::Glob::bsd_glob, the default flags
> > are not documented. They appear to be GLOB_CSH, although the
>
> Hmm, it's there, just the summary is far less prominent than I feel it
> should be (usage usually goes at the top, not examples):
>
> "bsd_glob"
>
> This function, which is included in the two export tags listed above,
> takes one or two arguments. The first is the glob pattern. The second
> is a set of flags ORed together. The available flags are listed below
> under "POSIX FLAGS". If the second argument is omitted, "GLOB_CSH" (or
> "GLOB_CSH|GLOB_NOCASE" on VMS and DOSish systems) is used by default.
Thanks. FWIW, the corresponding change was
https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8c9e50e76ac4058a63c63a3d1714aa2556ca9393
And it's in the 'Exports' section, not 'Examples' :)
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