[Asterisk-Dev] Re: BOUNTY: app_hangup from exten => h

[Josh Roberson]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

>On April 14, 2005 11:48 am, Josh Roberson wrote:
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>>I would have to disagree with you here, since it is (or should be)
>>widely known that _. is a wildcard match, and will match ANYTHING.  This
>>behaviour is GOOD, when you just need to capture anything that is sent
>>into a particular context, and parse it.  Sure, ruling out _. would be
>>great for newbies, but some of us experienced folk use this for more
>>than just numeric extensions - we actually determine, and work around
>>some of the system extensions using this operator.
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>>
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>I disagree.
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>_. should match ANY **NORMAL** extension.  It should never match o,s,h,i,a,t.  
>That is not how it is now, but IMO that is how it should be.  I can't think 
>of a single valid reason to have _. match any of those.
>
>-A.
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And just because you can't doesn't mean that others can't.   Please, 
stop trying to put rubber bumpers on things because people can't learn.  
If you don't like it, don't use it. simple as that.

This is the end of discussion for me on this thread, and I would say it 
would be best to just move along.