I wanted to mention the global state of regexs prevent the elimination of otherwise dead code by optimizers. Which is unfortunate. I personally have fixed a number of bugs where a regex overwrote the global state. It is a refactoring hazard. On Sep 17, 2014 8:58 PM, "Viktor Mukhachev" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > `lastIndex` also prevents usage of one instance in parallel... > I know the javascript do not support parallel execution, but the code is > not so beatiful... > > the idea to "deprecate" lastIndex was proposed 4 years ago: > > see > http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/fixing-javascript-regexp > > http://esdiscuss.org/topic/proposal-for-exact-matching-and-matching-at-a-position-in-regexp > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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