From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T08:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: named captures

On Aug 20, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Phrogz wrote:

> What do you mean by "change the syntax"?

I mean change the basic regexp 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?

So yea, just backwards compatibility.

Is Oniguruma behind a new class Oniguruma.new or behind Regexp.new

Sorry, but I can't seem to find much documentation on it.

Ari
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