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by kaeruct 404 days ago
Using. But also maybe abusing.
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I think he's proposing a fix for the regex in the title.

/(ab?)using/ matches:

- ausing

- abusing

while /(ab)?using/ matches:

- using

- abusing

It's English, it just looks like regex. In English, the ? belongs inside the parens in this case.