Re: Embedded modifiers in the regex engine

[John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>]

>>>>> Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:

> So for instance "\\(?i\\)asdf" would be interpreted as a case-folding regex
> regardless of the value of case-fold-search. I think this would be a great
> thing to have in general, but for the specific issues in the bugs above,
> it'd make things simpler and more correct.

This does sound promising.

> Clearly this is a big change to a core component, so I want to talk about it
> first. I looked at our regex implementation, and it looks possible to add
> this. But I've seen talk of merging our regex implementation with the glibc
> one, so the merge should clearly happen first.

There's also been talking of rewriting the regex code, since it has acquired
much baggage over the years.

> Also I don't want to touch this without a test suite for our regex engine.
> So that would need to happen beforehand as well.

Absolutely.

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