[ruby-dev:52017] [Ruby master Feature#19194] Add Regexp.linear_time?

Issue #19194 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). Also accepted to nominate him a committer. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #19194: Add Regexp.linear_time? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19194#change-100552 * Author: make_now_just (Hiroya Fujinami) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- I suggest adding a new method named `Regexp.linear_time?` to check if matching against a given regexp can be completed in linear time by the optimization introduced in #19104 (GitHub PR [#6486](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6486)). This method was discussed in #19104. I'm not sure the name is best. # Example ``` Regexp.linear_time?(/a/) # => true Regexp.linear_time?(/(a|a)*\1/) # => false, because this uses a back-reference. # This can accept a regexp source string and flags like `Regexp.new`. Regexp.linear_time?('a') # => true Regexp.linear_time?('a', Regexp::IGNORECASE) # => true ``` For example, this method is useful for implementing a Rubocop rule to check a regexp is ReDoS safe. # Implementation Implementation is done at GitHub PR [#6901](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6901). See the details there. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/