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

2010-03-04 Thread Steve L.
On March 04, 2010 11:07 AM, Brendan Eich wrote: Right. I was explicit about hypothesizing an ecosystem solution, independent of the standard and predicated on fast JS engines. This is not meant to preempt your great work making RegExp incrementally better. We (by which I mean "you" with edit

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

2010-03-04 Thread Steve L.
On March 04, 2010 11:40 AM, Andy Chu wrote: Regarding "RegEx", I'm pretty certain Brendan was talking about a hypothetical new library (name unimportant) that the JavaScript community might create in the future. I don't think anyone has suggested adding a I worked on something like this: http:

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

2010-03-04 Thread Andy Chu
> Regarding "RegEx", I'm pretty certain Brendan was talking about a > hypothetical new library (name unimportant) that the JavaScript community > might create in the future. I don't think anyone has suggested adding a I worked on something like this: http://code.google.com/p/json-pattern/ . It is

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

2010-03-04 Thread Brendan Eich
On Mar 3, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Steve L. wrote: (If it's really a goal to create an entirely new RegEx (no p) class, those things could be addressed there. Although I think that proposal is problematic too since it is a burden on implementers to have 1.5 regex implementations.) Regarding "Reg