Poll of the week: How should std.regex handle unknown escape sequences as in: "[\.]"

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:53:59 +0100, Martin Nowak wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:33:34 +0100, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ed9478e4fb7b0e4886eeea2
> 
> auto s = "[\.]"; => Error: undefined escape sequence.
> Do you actually mean r"[\.]" or `[\.]`?

He was referring to invalid regular expression escape sequences, so yes 
r"[\.]" would build a proper string and invalid regex (or more to be 
determined if it is invalid).