[Boost-users] Re: interest in a glob_iterator? (directory_iterator with regex)

Jeff Flinn wrote:

And a more descriptive, less jargon-ish name.

Why? Rich is proposing something that would iterate over the files returned by the unix 'glob' function. "*.abc" is a 'glob' just as "^.*\.abc$" is the equivalent 'regular expression'. Both are jargon and both are fine. It's just that you're used to the latter... -- Angus