I really wonder why the author didn't just leave off the first two, and call it "Eight Things I...". Starting off with "backslash escapes can be confusing" and

I really wonder why the author didn't just leave off the first two, and call it "Eight Things I...". Starting off with "backslash escapes can be confusing" and "/* doesn't just match things consisting of 0 or more slashes!" makes no sense if you're later going to skip over !! because it's "obvious".