From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-04-17T22:12:59+09:00
Subject: Regexp quoting (again)

Folks:

I know this has been discussed at length, but could I put in a vote not 
to warn on  /]/. I now have a lot of legacy code that generates 
warnings, and for the life of me I can't see a good reason for it. It's 
a bit like generating warnings for characters inside strings:

    "1) Break 3 eggs in a bowl"

    recipe:1 warning - unmatched closing parenthesis in string

The ']' in a regexp is a terminator, and is not otherwise special. Why 
should it need to be escaped?

Cheers


Dave