15 Aug
2007
15 Aug
'07
6:46 p.m.
c - Highlight by default, but adding a prefix can turn it OFF, e.g. R instead of r - again, obscure and a bit ugly; annoys raw string users slightly, keep regex users happy, or
I really like this option. Anecdotally, it looks like *most* raw string users are really writing regex's. Then, this option will do the right thing for 90%-95% of users, and the other 5%-10% of users will have a very simple way workaround.
As mentioned, none of us have actually bumped into the "R" prefix in use, so this won't effect existing code containing regular expressions. It will effect existing code containing raw strings that aren't regular expressions, but these are in the minority.