R. David Murray added the comment:
Agreed that this is unlikely to ever get implemented given that Matthew doesn't
think it should be.
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resolution: - rejected
stage: - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
Matthew Barnett added the comment:
FYI, I did eventually add it to my regex implementation. It was quite
challenging!
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Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment:
Closing because of quote from msg83993 Another feature request that I've
decided not to consider any further is recursive regular expressions. There are
other tools available for that kind of thing, and I don't want the re module to
go
Peter Waller peter.wal...@gmail.com added the comment:
It looks like Matthew has dropped this feature from consideration.
See msg83993 .
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Matthew Barnett pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com added the comment:
There are 2 reasons:
1. I've been told that my current patches contain too many differences
from the current implementation, so basically I have to go back to the
start and introduce any changes a little at a time, without knowing
Matthew Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Perl (?number) for calling numbered groups and (?name) for named groups
(Perl also supports (?Pname)). (?R) is equivalent to (?0).
It's interesting that the documentation for both Perl and PCRE say that
they support (?Pname) because that's
Matthew Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
I'll have a look at this. No promises, though.
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