- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:01:26 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > Hmm, good question. ECMAScript defines only the RegExp object's > 'ignoreCase' and 'multiline' as modifiers, from what I can see. Of > those, the only one that's really relevant, I think, is ignoreCase. It > certainly might be useful to be able to define whether a pattern is > case-insensitive or not. Yeah -- if someone can come up with a way to define that, maybe we can add it to WF3 if people find they need it. > We used to have a comment that defined the value for the 'multiline' > ECMAScript property, though that seems not to be present in the current > draft - I'm not sure why. I'd commented it out because it was the default anyway. I've just put it back, along with a comment saying ignoreCase is disabled too. > obvious syntax for doing that, though. I must admit that I can't think of a > use case where the pattern *is* case sensitive. Since it's harder (impossible) to define a case-sensitive pattern with ignoreCase true, than it is to define a case-insensitive pattern with ignoreCase false, I think we have to go for the latter in WF2. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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