Upon reading the documentation for File::Glob I was about to say that I stand corrected, but to be precise, I actually wrote that "This sounds very wrong" (with additional emphasis added now) so I won't, because I still claim that it sounds very wrong. That the actual globbing function's name is bsd_glob() behind the scenes is a matter of fact, but using it explicitly conveys the psychological feeling of resorting to a bsd thingie, whatever it is. The rationale is that perl's glob will dwimmily do whatever is best for the OS one is running under: of course, I acknowledge that there's some sloppiness in this claim since

• even under *NIX different shells may perform different globbing - I'm not really sure: is there any baseline defined by POSIX?
• under Windows, it's not defined at all, being left to each individual application: in that case I think that the "standard" behaviour could be defined by that of cli utilities that come with the OS itself...

Whatever, if e.g. glob() breaks when a space is present, I would still regard it as a feature: provided that does it conform to the standard behaviour on the given OS. Failure to do so would be definitely considered a bug instead.

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