Poll of the week: How should std.regex handle unknown escape
    Dmitry Olshansky 
    dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
       
    Sat Dec  3 07:51:13 PST 2011
    
    
  
On 03.12.2011 16:54, Kagamin wrote:
> Marco Leise Wrote:
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>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ed9478e4fb7b0e4886eeea2
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> Erm... but "\." is a perfectly known escape sequence, so the question should be "How should std.regex handle known escape sequences as in: "[\.]"".
Let's clarify this a bit.
Well \. is more or less common outside of []. The question is more like:
treat every \<something> as plain <something> (ignoring \) inside 
character classes [] if it's not a known escape sequence like \w, \d, 
\uXXXX, \W, \cA -\cZ and so on.
    
    
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