Comment on Why a*a*a*a*a*a cannot be optimized to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?Comments−dougws15yWhen I first read the headline, I definitely thought that was a regular expression which could be "optimized" to a+. I guess I'm more inclined to read "*" as the Kleene operator than as multiplication...−Natsu15yI'm glad to know that I'm not alone in doing this.−leif15yI think you need a font where asterisk is not superscripted. Try Inconsolata.−rjh2915yMe too, but that's probably because of all those regular expressions like 'aa* b*' I had to read at uni :)
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When I first read the headline, I definitely thought that was a regular expression which could be "optimized" to a+. I guess I'm more inclined to read "*" as the Kleene operator than as multiplication...
I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in doing this.
I think you need a font where asterisk is not superscripted. Try Inconsolata.
Me too, but that's probably because of all those regular expressions like 'aa* b*' I had to read at uni :)