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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.
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