ECMA262Regex compiled regexes cannot be made case insensitive due to escapes

[email protected] (Francis Grizzly Smit) Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:45:13 +1100

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Hi to the guys from ECMA262Regex
   I have looked at putting options on the results of 
`ECMA262Regex.as-perl6($str)` but due to the fact you translate 
character consts to `\code` escapes :ignorecase does not work, is there 
any reason you don't translate to `'char'`   ????

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    <p>Hi to the guys from ECMA262Regex <br>
        I have looked at putting options on the results of
      `ECMA262Regex.as-perl6($str)` but due to the fact you translate
      character consts to `\code` escapes :ignorecase does not work, is
      there any reason you don't translate to `'char'`   ????<br>
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