OR conditional usage behavior changed in 0.8.x?

[TECK]

Thanks a lot Maxim and Igor for the replies.
Is there a more compact way to write several directories, into one
line?

Right now I have many directories not allowed:
[code]location /dir/(alpha|gamma/beta|theta|epsilon/delta/tmp|omega)/ {
	allow 127.0.0.1;
	deny all;
}[/code]

This is just an example, I have about 20 dirs that needs to be
protected.
Do I have to write each one of them individually in order to preserve
efficiency?
I could create an additional .conf file and include it into
configuration, for sanity reasons.
I just need to know if is best to have the locations separate.

Thanks.

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