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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. :)
Eirik
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