Although not specified in ES5, octal escapes are required in regular expressions for web reality [1,2]. [1] even claims the extensions are "extensive and consistent across browsers". But for invalid octal escapes, the browsers are not consistent. For example:
/^\8$/ matches "\\8" in Spidermonkey, JSC and Opera, whereas in IE10 and V8, /^\8$/ matches "8". /^\777$/ matches "\x3F7" in SM, JSC, Opera and V8, whereas in IE10, /^\777$/ matches "\u01FF". Is there going to be any kind of consolidation for ES6? Thanks, André [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:regexp_match_web_reality [2] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:match_web_reality_spec _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
