From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" <naruse@...>
Date: 2012-12-17T11:12:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50929] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7566][Rejected] Escape (\u{}) forms in Regexp literals


Issue #7566 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Because Regexp Literals are not String Literals, and escapes in them have different meanings.
For example \b, it is word boundary in Regexp but BEL in String.
People will need to distingish word boundary from BEL, so \b must be showed as \b.
\uXXXX follows such style.
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Bug #7566: Escape (\u{}) forms in Regexp literals
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7566#change-34784

Author: brixen (Brian Ford)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10 revision 37606) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]


Why are \u{} escape sequences in Regexp literals not converted to bytes like they are in String literals?

https://gist.github.com/4290155

Thanks,
Brian


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