Testing getRegex/toString

[SignpostMarv]

Should the same series of inputs spit out exactly the same regex, or should the regex be platform-specific ?

I'm referring mostly to the differences between the PHP & JS implementations, with JS seeming to have /g by default, and multiple('') giving "(?:)*" instead of "+".

The second part of this question is "should this repo contain a machine-consumable (JSON/XML/other) list of inputs & "accptable" outputs?

[jehna]

As we move towards version 1.0 (referring to the JS repo), I'd say generality is a big issue.

I like the idea of a centralised test scheme; this would also act as the official specification. As you said, we could do a general .json file to this repo, that would be imported as a submodule (or similar) to the implementation repositories and start matching all the implementations' tests to that .json file.