When you fix one bug and it instantly triggers twenty new compilation errors

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Gina P. Banyard posted a pre-RFC with a prototype: Regex\CompiledRegex takes a bare pattern plus named boolean flags — no delimiters, no preg_quote, no modifier letters. Patterns must be UTF-8, and it brings a Regex\CompilationError. So far it plugs into preg_split and preg_grep.

I can't see anything obviously wrong with this API, but it feels like it's wrong 😔

I guess I'll find out as I go!