Re: Pattern matching proposal: %B to match balanced string with specified escape

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> > My suggestion is to add the token %B, which would perform the same
> > thing as %b, except it would recognize an escape character specified
> > in the arguments to the token, and upon encountering the escape
> > character, the following character would be ignored. I doubt it would
> > handle all use cases, but it almost certainly would handle a large
> > percentage.
> 
> Roberto? Luiz? I'm interested in hearing your "official" opinions on
> this proposal.

We don't have any "official" opinion about that.

-- Roberto