Re: Proposal for exact matching and matching at a position in RegExp

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Samuel
2010/2/15 Steve L. : > On Feb 14, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: > >>> compatibility with other regex flavors is probably good enough  reason to >>> chose \G over /y. >> >> Not clear, since ES3 deviated from Perl and will not reconverge. The >> committee is not going to standardize any lastI

Re: Proposal for exact matching and matching at a position in RegExp

2010-02-14 Thread Steve L.
On Feb 14, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: compatibility with other regex flavors is probably good enough reason to chose \G over /y. Not clear, since ES3 deviated from Perl and will not reconverge. The committee is not going to standardize any lastIndex or pos mapping per target stri