Re: Extended Regexs

[Andrew Wilson]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:15:54PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> There would still be a use of a /f like flag, though -- treat all (...)
> like (?:...). That would make the regex more likely to be DFA-able, and
> is often what I want but I don't want to clutter up my regex with those
> nasty ?:'s everywhere.

How about a modifier that makes (...) behave like (?:...) and some other
syntax where you have to specifically ask it to create a backreference
e.g. (?+...).

Andrew