AST nodes for regular expressions lack `regex` property

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AST nodes for regular expressions lack `regex` property

mathiasbynens opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

AST nodes for regular expressions should have a regex property that holds an object like { pattern: '…', flags: 'g' }.

See https://github.com/estree/estree/blob/master/spec.md#regexliteral & https://github.com/shapesecurity/shift-spec/blob/56ec0f6020f039ca6f8c798f08be8227d6e068bb/spec.idl#L253-L256

Ben Newman · Answer 1 · Fri Apr 10 2015 01:19:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Do any parsers support this yet? That is, do they actually produce a node with .type === "RegexLiteral" rather than a node with .type === "Literal" and .value instanceof RegExp?

I submitted some feedback as a PR to ESTree: estree/estree#76