Comment on ESR announces ForgePlucker: solving the data-jail problems of OSS hosting sitesparentComments−_csoo16yhe obviously hates dealing with regular expressions and I do too. It's only natural.−gaius16ySo he used double the number of regexps he needed?−_csoo16ydouble the expressions but they're simpler to understand perhaps.−gaius16yNo, the only reason to a) specifically add the option for case insensitive matching and then b) copy-paste the same regexp just with the case changed is if you really don't understand what it means.
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he obviously hates dealing with regular expressions and I do too. It's only natural.
So he used double the number of regexps he needed?
double the expressions but they're simpler to understand perhaps.
No, the only reason to a) specifically add the option for case insensitive matching and then b) copy-paste the same regexp just with the case changed is if you really don't understand what it means.