On Wed, Sep 23, 2026, at 21:01, Gina P. Banyard wrote:
> This class could lay the foundation on which to build a new nice OO API
Nice. I am in favor of improving the API, instead of slapping more flags onto
the existing one.
> the pattern *must* be a UTF-8 pattern
Does this also apply to the subject? I recently had a reason to remove the u
modifier from a regex: if the input is not valid UTF8, preg_match silently
fails without a match. I think I was scraping web pages and discovered that
some webpages don't contain valid UTF8, and that made it impossible to use
preg_match with UTF8 on it.
> returning a bool type
Would it make more sense to return a Match object, with captured groups?
The proposed API would result in calls like this:
new CompiledRegex(".*", false, false, false, true, true, true, false, true)
where it is hard to determine what all the true/false parameters mean. Would it
be better to pass enums instead? Or is this solved by editor hints nowadays?
Regards,
Sjoerd Langkemper
