[Cbor] Regular expressions

[Joe Hildebrand <[e-mail]>]

I know that rfc8949 dropped Regular Expressions as tag 35, but they're still defined and usable from rfc7049.

That said, what, if anything, are people doing the the regex flags?  I wonder if all this time I should have been encoding

/foo/g

As 

35("/foo/g")

Instead of 

35("foo")

(Losing the g flag).  I see from https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cbor/txIKHMXRFzNo7oH-eHZigO1L47w/ that Carsten has previously also assumed that we don't transport the slashes.

If including the slashes won't interop, and if I'm not the only one that's implemented tag 35, I'd be happy to whip up a new doc to describe this, and register a higher tag number for it.  If anyone is interested, we can have a discussion about

35("/foo/g") vs. 35("foo", "g")

And maybe even some sort of info about what kind of regex it is (ECMAscript vs. PCRE, for example).

I assume a lot of folks are in the "regexes are too hard to interop" camp, in which case I'll take a nice high tag number and everyone else can ignore it.

— 
Joe Hildebrand