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package dev.mccue.guava.base;
/**
* Pluggable interface for compiling a regex pattern. By default this package uses the {@code
* java.util.regex} library, but an alternate implementation can be supplied using the {@link
* java.util.ServiceLoader} mechanism.
*/
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
interface PatternCompiler {
/**
* Compiles the given pattern.
*
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is invalid
*/
CommonPattern compile(String pattern);
/**
* Returns {@code true} if the regex implementation behaves like Perl -- notably, by supporting
* possessive quantifiers but also being susceptible to catastrophic backtracking.
*/
boolean isPcreLike();
}