On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Claude Pache <[email protected]> wrote: > Another idea is to to define a variant of the `RegExp.prototype.exec()` > method, that does the Right Thing (doesn't read/write stuff on the RegExp > instance, nor on the RegExp global, nor I don't know where): > > RegExp.prototype.run (str, params): > > Do what is currently specified for `RegExp.prototype.exec`, except > that: > > * global, sticky and lastIndex properties are read and written on > `params` instead of `this` > * implementations are not allowed to extend that method in order > to mess with `RegExp`, etc. > > All other (legacy) methods are rewritten in terms of `RE.p.run` (in the > current ES6 draft, they are mostly written in terms of `RE.p.exec`).
+1. Deprecating the side-effects of the legacy methods might be tricky though. --scott _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
