Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.b...@gmail.com> added the comment: Not that it matters in any way, but if the regex semantics has to be distinguished via "non-standard" custom flags; I would prefer even less wordy flags, possibly such that the short forms for the in-pattern flag setting would be one-letter (such as all the other flags) and preferably some with underlying plain English words as base, to get some mnemotechnics (which I don't see in the numbered versions requiring one to keep track of the rather internal library versioning). Unfortunately, it might be difficult to find suitable names, given the objections expressed against the already discussed ones. (FOr what it is worth, I thought e.g. of [t]raditional and [e]nhanced, but these also suffer from some of the mentioned disadvantages... vbr
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