Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, karl williamson > <public@khwilliamson.com <mailto:public@khwilliamson.com>> wrote: > > If we're going to do this, I'd like to do it now before the new > regex modifiers go in. > > Aristotle withdrew his opposition and became a supporter after he > understood what the proposal really was. Sorry for being unclear. > > If there's no opposition, we need to settle on what is the syntax > is. Ben originally proposed (?~ I thought (?. was better because > the tilde can be too easily confused with a hyphen, (?- which is > also legal right after the question mark. > > Another option is to make it a two character sequence, the first one > is a tilde, say, and I'm not sure what the second one should be. > This would allow future expansion so that some other 2nd char could > mean something else. Mostly people wouldn't type this, it would be > inserted by the regex compiler. > > > > If this is happening, I think I prefer (??...-...:<re>). > > Like (?...-...:<re>), but different, just like (??{...}) is like > (?{...}), but different. :) > > > Eirik Note that if this goes forward that whatever is decided will be the stringification of all or nearly all regexes.Thread Previous