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by WJW 607 days ago
Vegans? Veg[a..z1..9A..Z]ns? Are there any vegyns out there who object to being put on the meat/no-meat spectrum? Are you afraid HN will censure you if you spell out the complete word?
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Really now. It's obviously veg.+ns: vegans and vegetarians.
Oh aha thanks for pointing that out. Now that you mention it that does seem obvious. I definitely didn't catch that from the first use though. There should be a better word to capture both those meanings that doesn't confuse my poor regex sensibilities like that. :|
My regex sensitivities only warned me about the persecution of veggggggggns.
I was more concerned about the vens
It's a regular veganza in here. (I'm sorry)
I didn't get that either; not that obvious after all! I thought they were making a joke about vegan being a swear/taboo word, given the context of saying people don't want to hear of it because it allegedly threatens their morality
veg(etari)?ans
I suppose I really should use veg.*ns