I would personally love this (as well as interpolations in regexp literals). I do have a concern about whether removing the newline restriction creates ambiguities with division, but I suspect this is *not* the case.
----- Isiah Meadows [email protected] www.isiahmeadows.com On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:03 PM Jacob Pratt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has there been any previous discussion of adding the `x` flag to JS? It > exists in other languages, and can make relatively complicated regex _much_ > easier to read. It also allows for comments, which are incredibly helpful > when trying to understand some regexes. > > For prior art, XRegExp has this flag (though I've no idea to figure out how > frequently it's used), as do a few other languages. > > Quick overview: https://www.regular-expressions.info/freespacing.html > > Language references: > Python: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.X > Rust: https://docs.rs/regex/1.1.6/regex/ > XRegExp: http://xregexp.com/xregexp/flags/#extended > .NET: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/regular-expression-language-quick-reference#regular-expression-options > > Jacob Pratt > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
