user authentication and access

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> > Agreed.  Or maybe the union of read and post?
> 
> Hm.  Yeah, that works, although union is harder to implement (you can't
> just squish the wildmats together because of the effect of !).

Yeah, I thought about that, and decided that it might be a bit more 
expensive but not enough to matter to go back to the basic definition
( A U B === { x | x in A or x in B} ) and just run both wildmats and see 
if either matched.

I guess it might slow down LIST enough to notice.  Thoughts?

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org