On Jun 27, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote: > Safety over readability please. If there is a single fully escaped form that > is safe to use in all the expected contexts, let's choose that. The results > of RegExp.escape are not very readable anyway, and rarely read. So > compromising safety for some contexts in exchange for incremental readability > improvements of something that won't be read is not a good idea. > > If there is not a clearly most escaped form that is safe in all expected > contexts, then first, let us enumerate all the relevant contexts and the > escaping demands of each.
Alternatively, an optional options object argument could be used to adapt a single 'escape' function to differing use case requirements. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
