Regex named-group and backreference syntax

[Xueming Shen]

Hi

Guess you might be interested to help review the change for this RFE, 
here is the webrev.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/6878475/webrev

Since this is an API update, the change will need to go through a review 
process before it can
be integrated into the workspace, so it might take a little while.

Regards,
Sherman

Alan Moore wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Xueming Shen<Xueming.Shen at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> RFE#6878475 has been filed to trace this issue.
>>
>> At this point we are going to update the doc and implementation to
>> (1)disallow the group name started with digit character
>> (2)use ${name} for the group reference in replacement string.
>>     
>
> Great! Thank you.
>
>   
>> The \k<n> and ${n} can leave for further discussion (whether or not we
>> really need this NEW feature, while there is existing syntax that can
>> do the job just fine).
>>     
>
> Agreed--it's a separate issue. But at least now we'll have the option.
>