On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Maël Hörz wrote:

> Wouldn't it make sense to keep/reintroduce PCRE2_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT as a
> combination/oring of PCRE2_ALT_BSUX, PCRE2_ALLOW_EMPTY_CLASS, and
> PCRE2_MATCH_UNSET_BACKREF?

I abolished JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT for two reasons: (1) It caused some people 
to think it enabled full JavaScript compatibility, which it did not. (2) 
JavaScript seems now to be only one version of ECMAScript. For those 
reasons I thought it would be more future-proof if the actual changes to 
behaviour were given their own behavioural names, without tying them to 
any specific language.

> (I wont use that option, just commenting on the API as I notice things.)

Comments on the API are welcome. Please keep on noticing things!

Philip

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