Why does "view" not allow wildcards?

[Juanma Barranquero]

Before filling a bugreport for a wishlist item, I wanted to ask
whether this was discussed and rejected during the filtered views
development.

Why does view only allows to set files (or directories), and not
wildcards? It could certainly be useful, for example in Emacs I would
likely have a view

  bzr view --name changelogs ChangeLog*

There are 59 ChangeLog.* files in the Emacs tree, too many to add
manually, and unwieldy in the message

  Ignoring files outside view. View is ...

    Juanma