Tim BrayFew strata of geekery are more obsessive than regular-expression geekery. So let’s have some fun! In https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing I explain why using the usual backslash “\” for escaping is hellishly inconvenient in a current project and propose replacing it with one of «, —, “, ¶, §, or ~. This Friday, I’ll be running some polls tagged #unbackslash to let you all join in.
Cameron Hayne@timbray
1) At first I thought your “regular-depression” was a joke. Now thinking it was an auto-correctism.
2) instead of using a different escape character, wouldn’t it be better to protect the whole regex by sending it as pre-compiled binary? E.g. via a pre-processor mechanism.
@cameronhayne Gack. Fixed, thks.