On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, karl williamson <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. :) EirikThread Previous | Thread Next