{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/3519","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/3519/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/3519/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/3519/events","html_url":"https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3519","id":103129122,"number":3519,"title":"Minor: regex vs regexp","user":{"login":"StoneCypher","id":77482,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/77482?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher","html_url":"https://github.com/StoneCypher","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/StoneCypher/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/labels/question","name":"question","color":"5319e7"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-08-25T22:16:24Z","updated_at":"2015-08-26T00:02:20Z","closed_at":"2015-08-26T00:02:20Z","body":"It is peculiar that most of your rules refer to regular expressions as regex (no-control-regex, no-regex-spaces, etc,) but one refers to them as regexp (no-invalid-regexp.)\r\n\r\n![1487438_838631946179981_2178094243800988785_n](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/77482/9481087/3a5a32f2-4b3c-11e5-816a-23ec3c3467cc.jpg)\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/comments/134773976","html_url":"https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/3519#issuecomment-134773976","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eslint/eslint/issues/3519","id":134773976,"user":{"login":"nzakas","id":38546,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38546?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas","html_url":"https://github.com/nzakas","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nzakas/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-26T00:02:20Z","updated_at":"2015-08-26T00:02:20Z","body":"Yes it is. Rules have been added over time and the rule naming conventions have evolved as well. It's very hard to change existing rule names, so there's not much we can do.\r\n\r\nIn the case of regex vs. regexp, the regex rules have to do with regular expression literals whereas the regexp one has to do with the `RegExp` constructor."}}