- From: Jim Ley <jim.ley@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:05:12 +0100
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:07:53 +0100, Super-User <root at www3.itn.co.uk> wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > > No, if the regexp is invalid, it is just ignored. > > > > This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Ignoring the regexp makes > > sense, but also makes debugging complex regexps a nightmare. Maybe > > WHATWG should provide a reference implementation regexp checker and/or > > debugger for these purposes? > > > > Thoughts? > > I am inclined to agree. I can't see any benefit in silently failing an invalid > regex. It's a guiding principle of the entire WHAT-WG work - graceful degradation, throwing an error is not graceful degradation. Jim.
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