From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T07:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: named captures

On Aug 20, 4:00 pm, Ari Brown <a...@aribrown.com> wrote:
> I've read about Oniguruma - is it just a different engine behind
> class Regex, and it won't change the syntax, right?
>
> Because there's a Regexp wrapper I'm writing (with much help from
> Robert Klemme) that uses Regex as the base, and all of the current
> syntax.

What do you mean by "change the syntax"?

For example, Oniguruma supports named captures (per this thread) and
zero-width negative lookbehind assertions, and ... more.

Certainly the syntax is different for new features, which cause the
current regexp engine to barf. Do you mean syntax inside the regex? Or
the syntax for declaring a regex? Or are you interested only in
backwards compatibility?