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by pjtr 2370 days ago
I don't understand the reasons. What is the actual problem in this "even-odd problem"?

How do all the other languages that have an equivalent function (Perl quotemeta, PHP preg_quote, Python re.escape, Ruby: Regexp.escape, Java Pattern.quote, C# Regex.Escape, Go QuoteMeta, Rust regex::escape) avoid or deal with this problem?

1 comments

They don't. The reasons are frankly idiotic.

The first couple of comments as well as the very last one from April in that thread all sum it up quite well.