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Re: Any opposition still to the idea of syntax indicating defaultregex modifiers?

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Ben Morrow
Date:
August 11, 2010 03:36
Subject:
Re: Any opposition still to the idea of syntax indicating defaultregex modifiers?
Message ID:
20100811103627.GA63789@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org
Quoth public@khwilliamson.com (karl williamson):
> 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.

I have no opinion about the specific syntax. (Well, I'd like it to be
(?=i:), but that's already taken.)

Ben


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