Good point -- could you please file a separate ticket and cite it here in reply? Thanks,
/be On Sep 15, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Markus Jarderot wrote: > Brendan Eich wrote: >> Steven did file >> >> http://bugs.ecmascript.org/ticket/376 >> >> I'll champion fixing this, somehow, in Harmony. We should get >> Waldemar's opinion on it. >> >> /be > > #376 seems to only concern the issue of back-references to > non-participating capture-groups. > What I described was back-references to capture-groups within a > repetition. As the algorithm in the ECMA-262v3 is currently > written, any > captures from the last iteration should be discarded. > #376 mentions it, but also says that this deserves a separate > ticket. I > have not found any ticket on this specific issue. > > I have recently found that also Google Chrome keeps the captures > between > iterations. > > URI: javascript:alert(/(?:(a)|(b))*/.exec("ababa")) > > Firefox 3.0.1: > "ababa,a," <-- no "b" > > Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 and Google Chrome 0.2.149.29: > "ababa,a,b" <-- "b" in the end > > -- > Markus Jarderot > _______________________________________________ > Es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
