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Re: Verbose Regular Expressions

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Jon Ribbens wrote:

> I've just published an npm package:
> https://www.npmjs.com/package/verbose-regexp
> 
> It provides a way to use verbose regular expressions in JavaScript and
> TypeScript, similar to re.VERBOSE in Python. It provides that white-space
> at the start and end of lines are ignored, as are newlines, and anything
> following // to the end of the line.
> 
> It allows you to easily write multi-line regular expressions, and to make
> your regular expressions more self-documenting using formatting and
> comments.
> […]
> Any comments or thoughts would be appreciated.

I have had support for some PCRE features, including this one, in 
JSX:regexp.js:jsx.regexp.RegExp for some time [1], but to support
it by an actual syntax extension via Node.js is a nice idea.  (I did
not even know that that was possible.)
 
[1] <https://github.com/PointedEars/JSX/blob/master/regexp.js>

    (Needs fixing now that the new properties of RegExp instances are
     read-only.  TODO for the summer break.)
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Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-05-24 20:28 +0000
  Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-06-08 19:31 +0200
  Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2021-06-18 05:46 -0700
    Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-06-18 15:19 +0000
      Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2021-06-19 20:25 -0700
        Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-06-20 11:21 +0000
          Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 16:37 -0700

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