Re: regexps

Ar an triú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Jamie Zawinski: Right, but as a practical matter it’s possible to add u to the r to say that Unicode escapes (and only Unicode escapes) are allowed, allowing examples like the following: #ru"\u0022" => "\"" (1 character) #ru"\u005c" => "\\" (1 character) #ru"a\b\u263a" => "a\\b☺" (4 characters) Both the issue and the workaround are inherited from Python. My feeling is an approach close to what PHP does, with separate functions for the PCRE engine, is most reasonable for us, given that raw strings are probably syntactic convenience enough. (And use the shared library, good God there’s no reason to reimplement Perl regexp syntax, or even to translate it.) I would even be inclined to drop the idea of match data for these functions, since we can return multiple values for the matches. But I don’t anticipate having the time to implement these things in 2011. -- “Apart from the nine-banded armadillo, man is the only natural host of Mycobacterium leprae, although it can be grown in the footpads of mice.” -- Kumar & Clark, Clinical Medicine, summarising improbable leprosy research _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta