On 26 Aug 2014, at 02:16, Norbert Lindenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> […] Thanks for confirming. Sounds like my “ES6 Unicode regular expressions to ES5” transpiler is working correctly, then: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/regexpu Demo: http://mothereff.in/regexpu (Bug reports welcome.) > On Aug 25, 2014, at 1:59 , Mathias Bynens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Norbert’s original proposal for the `u` flag >> (http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/05/ecmascript-supplementary-characters/#RegExp) >> mentioned the following: >> >>> Possibly the definition of the character classes `\d\D\w\W\b\B` is extended >>> to their Unicode extensions, such as all characters in the Unicode category >>> “Number, decimal” for `\d`, as proposed by Steven Levithan. Whether this >>> can be done under the same flag or requires a different one still needs >>> discussion. >> >> Has this been discussed any further? (I couldn’t find any mention of it in >> the meeting notes repository.) Should I file a bug? > > The “needs discussion” part actually came from the March 2012 TC39 meeting: > https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-March/021919.html > We subsequently had some discussions about how to go about such a discussion, > which petered out because no regular expression expert was available to work > with. > > I suspect this issue needs a proposal rather than a bug. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/es6-unicode-character-class-escape-sets#readme I’m fairly confident in the proposals for `\d` and `\w`, but `\b` needs work. @Steven Levithan, would you mind lending your expertise on this? This is your chance to make `/na\b/u.test('naïve')` return `false` :) _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
