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(In reply to Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] from comment #8)

> … [read the specification describing the algorithm](https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/index.html#sec-assertion) (maybe also [see the proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-lookbehind) for further info) …

I just realized the links I provided are for the wrong feature (lookbehinds, see bug 1225665). Named groups were proposed [here](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-named-groups).

Sebastian

(In reply to Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] from comment #8)

> … [read the specification describing the algorithm](https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/index.html#sec-assertion) (maybe also [see the proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-lookbehind) for further info) …

I just realized the links I provided are for the wrong feature (lookbehinds, see bug 1225665). Named groups were proposed [here](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-named-groups).

(In reply to Porama Ruengrairatanaroj from comment #9)

> This feature is tied to its dependency https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367105. If we can get that one done, we should be able to get all the new RegExp features, not just this one. 
> 
> I don't think we'll have to implement this from scratch as part of the work is already done, but it's not a simple copy-paste fix either.

Thanks for the info, Porama! So, hopefully that one will be picked up again soon!

Sebastian