From 3e8ca90e3a39d3e602d88535485cefb36be3eaf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik <nuclear.ace@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 13:09:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] don't fatalerror

---
 Source/SwiftRegex.swift | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Source/SwiftRegex.swift b/Source/SwiftRegex.swift
index b7c134b..1a8bfd9 100644
--- a/Source/SwiftRegex.swift
+++ b/Source/SwiftRegex.swift
@@ -23,11 +23,22 @@ internal final class SwiftRegex: NSObject, BooleanType {
     var regex: NSRegularExpression
     
     init(target:String, pattern:String, options:NSRegularExpressionOptions?) {
+        self.target = target
+        
         if dispatch_semaphore_wait(lock, dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(10 * NSEC_PER_MSEC))) != 0 {
-            fatalError("This should never happen")
+            do {
+                let regex = try NSRegularExpression(pattern: pattern, options:
+                    NSRegularExpressionOptions.DotMatchesLineSeparators)
+                self.regex = regex
+            } catch let error as NSError {
+                SwiftRegex.failure("Error in pattern: \(pattern) - \(error)")
+                self.regex = NSRegularExpression()
+            }
+            
+            super.init()
+            return
         }
         
-        self.target = target
         if let regex = swiftRegexCache[pattern] {
             self.regex = regex
         } else {