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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. These days, many languages have top-notch tooling to help the developer write idiomatic, easy-to-understand code. Pomsky should be no...

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### Status Quo `[codepoint]` and `[.]` are special snowflakes: They can't contain other character classes, i.e. `[. 'x']` is illegal. ### Solution Deprecate `[codepoint]` and `[.]`. - Instead of `[codepoint]`,...

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Deprecate `<%` and `%>`

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### Status Quo The meaning of `` is not intuitively clear, and even confusing to some: Someone suggested that `

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Using the keyword `recursion`. For example: ```regexp '(' recursion* ')' | [not '()']+ ``` Compiles to ```regexp \((?R)*\)|[^()]+? ``` Which matches any text with balanced parentheses.

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Atomic groups exist to improve matching performance for regex engines that use backtracking by default, but they also change the regex behavior. The regex syntax is this: `(?>atomic group)`. The...

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Most regex engines support conditionals à là `(?(?=condition)then|else)` or `(?Pcondition)? (?(foo)then|else)`. The syntax varies slightly between implementations. A subset of this feature can be be made available in engines like...

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### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If you have lots of regexes, rewriting them in pomsky is currently an annoying, elaborate task. ### Describe the...

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[docs] negating references

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oftentimes a "quote finding" or "bracket finding" regex might be something like `\"[^"]*\"` or `\([^()]\)`. one of the examples for references is `:(['"' "'"]) !['"' "'"]* ::1` which would not...

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