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Re: RFC: New regex modifier flags; also the whimsical nature of backward compatibility; new 'r' flag has issues

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From:
David Golden
Date:
August 7, 2010 13:30
Subject:
Re: RFC: New regex modifier flags; also the whimsical nature of backward compatibility; new 'r' flag has issues
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:31 AM, karl williamson
<public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> them.  But I note that both he and Jesse had just recently called the idea
> of using uppercase modifiers "crazy".

The term "crazy" was in reference to two-letter ones only.
> So, I guess I'm pushing my proposal still.  What is different, is that I
> think we now are agreed that the problematic cases are very few, which is
> why my proposal makes sense at all.  I hope I've persuaded you that there
> really is only one case that may not be easily resolvable.  And I still
> think that the appropriate warning is sufficient to handle it.

I'm going to defer to Jesse to make a decision.  I think it's up to
him to decide whether the extra parsing complexity is worth it for
5.14 or if he's rather have upper case letters to avoid it.

-- David

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