Add call and apply methods to RegExp.prototype

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

Sounds like a good idea to me. On the other hand, this can already
easily be done in ES3.

Steven L. wrote:
> ES4 proposals include making regexes callable as a function on a
> single string argument, which serves as a shorthand for calling the
> regex's exec method. To further extend this idea, what about also
> including call and apply methods on RegExp.prototype, so that regexes
> can more easily be used with functional programming? For e.g., if one
> were to model a "where" function after JS 1.6's Array.prototype.filter
> like so:
>
> function where (array, func, context) {
>     var results = [];
>     for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
>         if (func.call(context, array[i], i, array))
>             results.push(array[i]);
>     }
>     return results;
> }
>
> ...They could then use, e.g., where(["ab", "ba", "a", "b"], /^a/) to
> return all array elements starting with the letter "a" (["ab", "a"]).
>
> Thoughts? Is this possibly already included in the proposals? (sorry
> if I missed it)
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