Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
* /g flag must be set
* lastIndex must be 0
* can’t inline the regex, because it is needed as a pseudo-iterator
(more of an anti-pattern, anyway, but still)
* side effects via lastIndex may be a problem
Anything we do of the execAll/execIter kind had better be immune to the
awful Perl4-infused "mutable lastIndex state but only if global" kind.
Compositionality required.
The design decision to face is what to do when a global regexp is used.
Throw, or ignore its lastIndex?
/be
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