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On 16/07/15 07:24 PM, Jonathan Goble wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Soni L. <[email protected]> wrote:On 16/07/15 05:44 PM, Jonathan Goble wrote:On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Rena <[email protected]> wrote:On Jul 16, 2015 6:04 AM, "John Hind" <[email protected]> wrote:New character classes are unlikely to break existing code.Except code that builds patterns from user input and escapes it like gsub(s, "%W", "%%1").Solution: forget %^ and %$ completely and use %b (beginning) and %e (end) instead. Neither of those letters are currently in use for character classes, so nothing would break, and the letters would be easy to remember.%b is already in use, actually, but for %b() or %b[] or %b`' See "Pattern Item": http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.4.1Oops, I forgot about that because I never use it, and I didn't scroll down to the "pattern item" section. Duh. So just use something else (though I don't know what to suggest). The main point is to use letters instead of punctuation to avoid breaking existing code.
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