Poll of the week: How should std.regex handle unknown escape

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 03.12.2011 19:48, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/3/11 6:54 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>> Marco Leise Wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ed9478e4fb7b0e4886eeea2
>>
>> Erm... but "\." is a perfectly known escape sequence, so the question
>> should be "How should std.regex handle known escape sequences as in:
>> "[\.]"".
>
> The dot inside a character set must not be escaped.
>
> Andrei

And that breaks ehm ... e.g. rdmd ;)

Anyhow I'm trying to pick a reasonable rule. 100% compatibility with old 
regex would mean ignore '\' where not applicable. My only concerns with 
it is future extensibility via \<character>.



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Dmitry Olshansky