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Nobody in tech thinks RE stands for regular expression...

• tyingq 9y ago
  Search Google for "re documentation" and look at some of the results.
  • NikolaeVarius 9y ago
    Google is effectively aliasing RE to regular expression. None of the links use "RE" as an acronym. Regex/Regexp has always been the accepted acronym.
    • tyingq 9y ago
      They do though. RE is a python library, an Erlang library, there's a reference to perlre, clojure calls it re, etc. Then there's the C lib pcre. Also Google chooses to alias certain things for a reason.
      • deleted 9y ago
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