After today’s TC39 meeting, I’m excited to announce that…
ES2018 makes regular expressions more readable and useful through the following features:
- dotAll mode (the s flag)
- Lookbehind assertions
- Named capture groups
- Unicode property escapes
https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/es-regexp-proposals …
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Yeah, i got it after tweeting. Anyway, a dont see point to reinvent wheel when libpcre available.
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We can make the ECMAScript wheel better. In particular, Unicode property escape semantics in PCRE are… not ideal.
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