There's a sane language that never went that route: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/glob.html https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/glob.html It also ditch

There's a sane language that never went that route: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/glob.html https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/glob.html It also ditched another special case recently: the leading ~.