FWIW that 's' flag would work for me, but about not being specd, those properties are described already here: https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-getreplacesubstitution
and these are a long time de-facto standard. "somebody" wrote already about them a while ago: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/9dthzd08(v=vs.94).aspx Regards On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Brendan Eich wrote: > > > Jussi Kalliokoski wrote: > >> Unicode flag disabling features to enable parallelism is another > footnote for WTFJS. > > > > A bit overdone, but I agree on this point. > > > > A separate flag per regexp, and/or a way to opt-out of RegExp.$foo > altogether, seem better. > > Speaking strictly from a standards perspective, it seems that we are > getting a bit ahead of ourselves. > > The $ properties of RegExp and the behavior of of setting them to reflect > the most recent exec is not part of any edition of ECMA-262. It seems like > they should be in Annex B, but apparently nobody has ever proposed that > and/or offered a specification for them. > > Getting them into Annex B sounds like the first step. > > Since it is Annex B that defines them, Annex B could then also define a > flag to eliminate them them. But then a program that asserted that it > didn't want to use that Annex B feature would be dependent upon the > presence of Annex B support. > > Annex B contains many changes to RegExp from the base standard. Perhaps a > better way to approach this is to have a standard (not Annex B) regexp > flag (perhaps 's', for "standard" or "strict") that means that this regexp > should be strictly applied using only the ES standard semantics without any > Annex B or other extensions. > > Allen > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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