• minorninth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    OK, let’s say you’ve got a bunch of regexes in a source repository that need to get modified frequently. It can be difficult to code-review complex regexes, and even harder to code-review changes to an existing regex.

    Something like this might actually help. A change to a complex regex might actually produce a more clear diff of a subset of lines.

    Also, I think being able to comment in the middle of a regex would be super handy for that type of code.

    • Pleonasm@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      But you can do that already in many languages using extended Regex syntax.This doesn’t add anything except more verbosity and another syntax to learn.