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List:       konq-bugs
Subject:    Bug#30681: pcre fixes it
From:       Olivier Lahaye <Olivier_Lahaye-AOL002 () email ! mot ! com>
Date:       2001-10-15 9:18:42
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David FAURE wrote:

> KHTML supports RegExps even without pcre being installed, it will then
> use the system regexp stuff (glibc?) which is less feature-complete, but
> still works for basic regexps (and that's why pcre wasn't made mandatory).
> Actually I'd be ok to make it mandatory but that's really M. Bedy and Harri's call.

I think that having an incomplete regexp support is worse thant having
non support at all because:
	- The test "if (window.RegExp ) { ... }" won't detect an incomplete
support.
	- Allowing incomplete support when complete support is available is a
sort of bug.
	  From the web developper side, you just see that the regexp fuction
does'nt behave
	  like the ECMA norm says, and thus you think that this is a bug.

Best regards.

PS: By the way, "[[:xdigit:]] and other regexps like this one" is not in
the ECMA norm (unfortunately). Using these syntaxes won't work under
IE6+. (I hope that they'l bee supported some day anyway) 

--
	Olivier LAHAYE
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