POSIX Regular Expression Funnyness

[Peter da Silva]

Why didn't they add a few backslash-escaped metacharacters, again?

	\:alpha:
	\-ch-
	\=o=

This would certainly be backwards-compatible, and would have the added
advantage of nicer aesthetics.
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