Expose comparison operators

[ewolfe]

Regular expressions are okay, but sometimes they don't cut it. For example:

"additions": [
  {
    "pattern": "0|^[1-9]$|^[1-9]\\d$",
    "message": "Your PR is too big (over 99 additions)"
  }
]

Would be better written as:

"additions": [
  {
    "less-than": 99,
    "message": "Your PR is too big (over 99 additions)"
  }
]

[ewolfe]

Another option would be to create a custom DSL to safely evaluate comparison operators. For example:

• "comparison": "$0 < 99"
• "comparison": "$0 == 'sample string'"
• "comparison": "$0 > 10 && $0 < 99"
• "comparison": "'wip' != $0"

[ewolfe]

https://github.com/joewalnes/filtrex looks like a perfect fit

[ewolfe]

https://jsonnet.org/ might be appropriate too