| 01:51 | <bakkot> | do we think anyone has written code along the lines of /(?<a>x)|\k<a>/ since the introduction of named capturing groups |
| 01:51 | <bakkot> | i.e. where there's a named backreference to a capturing group in a different alternative |
| 01:51 | <bakkot> | I want to make this illegal for reasons but realized it would technically be a breaking change |
| 01:55 | <bakkot> | there's no reason to write this, as I understand things, since the \k can never refer to anything (since you can't match both arms of the disjunction at the same time) |
| 03:40 | <devsnek> | it does seem unlikely that code exists in the real world but who knows |
| 03:41 | <devsnek> | maybe one of the browsers can do an analytic for it |
| 19:32 | <bakkot> | https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/2721 |