One thing to consider: .'s cooperate better with graphite, salt-stack and possibly ssh-configs, since in those tools, * matches everything but .; Thus, somethin

One thing to consider: .'s cooperate better with graphite, salt-stack and possibly ssh-configs, since in those tools, * matches everything but .; Thus, something like * .foo.* .* .domain.com.metric selects the metric for all datacenters & environments for the application foo. Using hypens, this doesn't work. (Why can't I escape * 's? ....)