Publish for 0.18 about regex HOT 2 CLOSED

I tried to work around this issue for the time being by vendoring this regex project into my repo using this method. But then ran into a snag where it conflicted with the 0.18 Regex package. If there was a way to simply import as Regex2 that would work. Next step is renaming all the occurrences of Regex with Regex2 in my local copy. So this is another case for elm/compiler#1625.

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Hey, sorry you are running into trouble along these lines. Cases like yours are part of what motivated the new API! But this package is slated to come out with 0.19 due to a confluence of other factors. One thing you could do in the meantime is override what new RegExp means in the context where you run Elm. Perhaps like this:

(function() {
function RegExp(str, settings) {
    try {
        return new window.RegExp(str, settings);
    } catch(e) {
        return /.^/;
    }
}
// elm program
}())

Obviously this is not ideal at all, but coordinating an Elm release is quite tricky, and I think something like the code shown here may be the best thing viable until the release is possible.

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