Re: [openpgp] Possible ambiguity in description of regular expressions:

On 08/01/2021 00:29, Ángel wrote:
> Regular expressions are a little-used feature, and the "natural" way to
> write them would conform to both of those specifications. It is
> unlikely that someone would have restricted a trust value based on the
> presence of curly brackets on an User ID (they are legal in the local
> part of email addresses, even unquoted, but it would be very rare to
> find one). Equally, it would be strange to needlessly escape
> characters.
It strikes me that regexes are an overengineered solution to a narrow 
use case, and that a simple *? globbing language would be more than 
sufficient. Is anything more complex than <*@*.example.com> required in 
the real world?
--
Andrew Gallagher

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