mozilla/sweet.js — pull request #325 by natefaubion (2014-05-18 19:08:40+00:00)
Title: Add named pattern and escape groups

This adds a new form to the pattern language for named groups. Where normal groups use the `$(...)` and `$[...]` forms, named groups use the `$foo:(...)` and `$foo:[...]` forms. The full syntax matched will be bound to the name. Additionally, if you decide to use names within the group, they will be concatenated with the group name, so `$foo:($bar)` will bind to `$foo$bar` in the template.

This addition also simplifies the implementation for identity rules, as now an identity rule is equivalent to `rule { $id:(...) } => { $id }`.

`loadPattern` was also refactored to return a pattern object directly instead of having `syntaxCase` and `macroclass` do it themselves in an extra step.

Fixes #319