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		jancsika on Nov 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better ... Is there a linter that can scan ECMAScript regex constants and disallow any that go beyond what is allowed in a regular language?

ridiculous_fish on Nov 28, 2018 [–]

Is the idea to avoid catastrophic backtracking? Unfortunately you aren't immunized from catastrophic backtracking by limiting yourself to regular languages. The catastrophe is a property of the implementation, not the matched language.

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