Regular expression syntax

[JeniT]

What syntax should we use for regular expressions to test strings.

[JeniT]

The obvious thing to use is the XML Schema regular expression syntax; another option would be to use ECMAScript regular expression syntax.

[danbri]

On 30 October 2014 11:10, Jeni Tennison notifications@github.com wrote:

The obvious thing to use is the XML Schema regular expression syntax
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#regexs; another option would be to
use ECMAScript regular expression syntax
http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.10.

• Richard Ishida, who may know if there is an I18N reason to choose between
  the options

Dan

[JeniT]

Discussed 14/01/2015 - we'll spec to use ECMAScript, and encourage conservative use of regexes by authors.