add HIR printer #458
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Also, small formatting fix and removal of debugging test.
Previously, we had some inconsistencies in how we were handling ASCII word boundaries. In particular, the translator was accepting a negated ASCII word boundary even if the caller didn't disable the UTF-8 invariant. This is wrong, since a negated ASCII word boundary can match between any two arbitrary bytes. However, fixing this is a breaking change, so for now we document the bug. We plan to fix it with regex 1.0. See rust-lang#457. Additionally, we were incorrectly declaring that an ASCII word boundary matched invalid UTF-8 via the Hir::is_always_utf8 property. An ASCII word boundary must always match an ASCII byte on one side, which implies a valid UTF-8 position.
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This adds a printer for the high-level intermediate representation. The regex it prints is valid, and can be used as a way to turn it into a regex::Regex.
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This PR adds a printer for HIR expressions. The motivation for this is to permit users to modify an HIR, and turn the results of that modification into a regex.