On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 04:10:24PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> This started as a rather simple patch, 1/11, adding the ability to
> more conveniently do regex matching in shell.
>
> But with that, it became very easy to see what the slre library can
> and especially what it cannot do, and that way I found both outright
> bugs and a "wow, doesn't it support that syntax" gotcha. I couldn't
> find any tests ('git grep slre -- test/' was empty), so I added a
> small test suite and tweaked slre.c.I will say I worry there might be users depending on the bugs you've fixed here, but I don't think that's a reason to not fix the bugs. We can if needed deal with bug compatibility some opt-in way if required in the future. And yes, this is a note to anyone in the future that has hit upon the problem. -- Tom
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