The future of RegEx

[gregsdennis]

We have discussed in Slack many times the idea of updating our support for RegEx.

The current spec (validation) says that implementors SHOULD support ECMA-262 expressions with also the guidance for authors that expressions SHOULD be limited to a subset of functionality in order to encourage interoperability.

I've pointed the Working Group for JSON Path to these paragraphs in our discussions on what flavor of RegEx that group would like to use. Ultimately we landed on creating a new 'interoperable RegEx subset" spec.

I posed the question in Slack last night asking whether we'd be interested in adopting that. If so, we might be able to steer it a bit as well.

The repo for the new spec is here.

I think this is a good opportunity for us to collaborate with the JSON Path effort and work toward common ground that will ultimately help standardize behavior for wider JSON functionality.