Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!.POSTED.178.197.192.72!not-for-mail
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Verbose Regular Expressions
Supersedes: <7939283.T7Z3S40VBb@PointedEars.de>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:04:51 +0200
Organization: PointedEars Software (PES)
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <9918766.nUPlyArG6x@PointedEars.de>
References: <slrnsao33e.1q1s.jon+usenet@raven.unequivocal.eu> <132e52c2-a9f7-49ad-a728-80061d617b49n@googlegroups.com> <slrnsaoq63.1q1s.jon+usenet@raven.unequivocal.eu> <b393a8c1-e12d-4872-9afd-f118a278c485n@googlegroups.com> <slrnsaqkde.1q1s.jon+usenet@raven.unequivocal.eu> <2083837.irdbgypaU6@PointedEars.de> <slrnsbvbah.56l.jon+usenet@raven.unequivocal.eu>
Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit
Injection-Info: gwaiyur.mb-net.net; posting-host="178.197.192.72"; logging-data="14658"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@open-news-network.org"
User-Agent: KNode/4.14.10
Cancel-Key: sha1:V3jkCgfBSwzy5YUhDIi6SlnA34c=
Cancel-Lock: sha1:ii70Jj4Jk2wOIS4LrEh6U0Eo6/M=
Face: 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
X-User-ID: U2FsdGVkX1+/h5ISKyTd0Ku8fvQ71L99RD38t6/hL++OKqPEof4XXA==
X-Face: %i>XG-yXR'\"2P/C_aO%~;2o~?g0pPKmbOw^=NT`tprDEf++D.m7"}HW6.#=U:?2GGctkL,f89@H46O$ASoW&?s}.k+&.<b';Md8`dH6iqhT)6C^.Px|[=M@7=Ik[_w<%n1Up"LPQNu2m8|L!/3iby{-]A+#YE}Kl{Cw$\U!kD%K}\2jz"QQP6Uqr],./"?;=4v
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:40190

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 :)

-- 
PointedEars
FAQ: <http://PointedEars.de/faq> | <http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>
<https://github.com/PointedEars> | <http://PointedEars.de/wsvn/>
Twitter: @PointedEars2 | Please do not cc me./Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.