Globbing

Overview

This allows quickly selecting terms, types, and namespaces for any "bulk" commands.

Currently supports up to one wildcard PER SEGMENT; Each segment can have its own wildcard if you really want and it'll still be performant. E.g. .base.?.to?
Can have a prefix, suffix or infix wildcard! E.g. to? or ?List or to?With!
I went with ? instead of * for the wildcard symbol since ? isn't currently a valid symbol name. This may cause some confusion since it differs from bash globbing though; so if anyone has thoughts/concerns about how to better handle this I'd love to hear them.
Commands can select which targets they want globs to expand to; e.g. cd should only glob for namespace, view should only glob to terms & types.

Demo

Add some definitions which we can match over:

convertToThing = 1
convertFromThing = 2
otherTerm = 3

-- Nested definitions
nested.toList = 4
nested.toMap = 5
othernest.toList = 6
othernest.toMap = 7

.> add

Globbing as a prefix, infix, or suffix wildcard.

.> view convert?
.> view convert?Thing
.> view ?Thing

Globbing can occur in any name segment.

.> view ?.toList
.> view nested.to?

You may have up to one glob per name segment.

.> view ?.to?

Globbing only expands to the appropriate argument type.

E.g. view should not see glob expansions for namespaces. This should expand to only the otherTerm.

.> view other?

Globbing should work from within a namespace with both absolute and relative patterns.

.nested> view .othernest.to?
.nested> view to?

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Globbing

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