Re: A curious logic
Keith Ivey <[email protected]>
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Perl Diety wrote:
> "...are easy and IMO, not interesting..."
>
> juxtapositioned with
>
> ", but I never found one..."
>
> Vern or Vernette, doesn't this imply that either:
>
> (a) You didn't look very hard, since being easy, they should also
> be easy to find
>
> or
>
> (b) They are not so easy?
How about
(c) You didn't read carefully?
The sentence was "Years ago, while I was still writing JAPHs, I
was looking for a regex matching itself - and nothing but itself
(regexes that match themselves, and also other strings are easy
and IMO, not interesting), but I never found one."
Notice that two separate sets of regexes are referred to.
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Keith C. Ivey <[email protected]>
Washington, DC