2012/3/26 Steven Levithan <[email protected]>:
> Python uses the same syntax in regular expressions. But, as Norbert noted,
> there is already a strawman for \u{X..}. If it were adopted, I think it is
> clear that it should also be extended to RegExp literals. Of course, this
> adds some complication when referencing numbers above FFFF unless /u is made
> the default everywhere, since it implies code-point-based matching. E.g.,
> what does /[^\0-\uFFFF\u{10000}]/ without /u match?
Without the /u flag it should behave exactly as it has done until now,
for reasons of backwards
compatibility. On V8 that means that
/[\u{10000}]/
is the same as
/[u01{}]/
--
Erik Corry
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