Re: Verbose Regular Expressions

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Verbose Regular Expressions
Date	2021-06-08 20:04 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Jon Ribbens wrote:

> […] adding named capture groups to JavaScript implementations
> that don't already have them would transform the project from a neat
> 9-line template-string trick into a complete re-implementation of
> the JavaScript regular expression engine, which would be a whole
> different project...

You might want to reconsider after you have read JSX:regexp.js.  It was not 
trivial to do it, but it certainly did not require what you suggest here :)

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Re: Verbose Regular Expressions "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-05-24 19:23 -0700
  Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-05-25 03:02 +0000
    Re: Verbose Regular Expressions "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-05-25 11:58 -0700
      Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-05-25 19:36 +0000
        Re: Verbose Regular Expressions "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2021-05-25 12:40 -0700
        Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-06-08 19:35 +0200
          Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2021-06-08 17:48 +0000
            Re: Verbose Regular Expressions Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-06-08 20:04 +0200

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