From konq-bugs  Mon Oct 15 09:55:06 2001
From: Michael Bedy <mjbedy () mediaone ! net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:55:06 +0000
To: konq-bugs
Subject: Bug#30681: It starts to come back now...
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=konq-bugs&m=100314038215250


  Hi,

  I'm starting to remeber the issues now...

  The more I think about it, the more I think making it manditory is a
good idea. Or, perhaps, shut off regex support completely if you don't
have it.

  The reason is that the POSIX regex used as the fall back is not a subset
of the Perl regex used by js, but instead a completely different syntax.
Even simple regular expressions designed for js are likely to not work
with POSIX. Simple things like character classes are completely different.
(i.e., I recall that [0-9] is not legal in POSIX. It's [:numeric:] or
something like that.) Worse yet, regex written for the js syntax may be
legal POSIX syntax, but mean something completely different.

  But, to be honest, I really don't care either way. I give you the above
information so that those who do care can take it into accout :-)

    - Mike

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