23:26 <andreaa> is there a way to pass PCRE flags to Regex? (say 'gm' :)

23:35 <jemc> andreaa: I notice that `Regex.replace` has a `global: Bool` parameter that affects the options passed to PCRE

23:36 <jemc> other than that, I don't see many ways to affect the options

23:37 <jemc> andreaa: I think it could be argued that the Regex class should be redesigned a bit to leverage the `collections.Flags` type to handle setting arbitrary PCRE flags

23:38 <andreaa> jemc, Flags seems nice! is it essentially a collection of or-ed ints?

23:40 <andreaa> jemc, it seems easy enough I could try to do that myself :D

23:50 <jemc> andreaa: right, Flags is a typesafe way to declare and represent an OR-ed integer - https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/master/packages/collections/flag.pony

23:50 <jemc> so it seems pretty perfect for this task

23:50 <jemc> I imagine that maybe the `regex` library was created before `Flags` perhaps

23:51 <andreaa> agreed, I'll try to make it work and send a proposal

23:51 <jemc> cool

23:51 <jemc> have you seen our RFC process? https://github.com/ponylang/rfcs

23:52 <jemc> somewhat recently we decided to adopt an RFC-based process for changes like this, to try to gather more community input for standard library design decisions

23:52 <andreaa> uh interesting, I guess this is what I should've done also for https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/issues/1399 then

23:53 <andreaa> I'm hoping to get away with a default argument also for Regex, so that the default behaviour should not change, but will definitely read that first

23:55 <jemc> in some certain cases we may do an API change without an RFC if the current behaviour is significantly "wrong" in some way that makes it more "bug-like" than "feature-like"

23:56 <jemc> in the case of your split question, it's possible that it could fall into the "API bug" category if the current behaviour is *too* surprising

23:56 <jemc> however, if not, we might add the "turn into rfc" label to the ticket and explain why

23:57 <jemc> I haven't looked at the issue in detail yet