It's worse. Even if you do know how regexes work, you can still be tripped up by the counterintuitive function names. See this comment[0] and its parent for an

It's worse. Even if you do know how regexes work, you can still be tripped up by the counterintuitive function names. See this comment[0] and its parent for an example. I think English names with ambiguous or unexpected meanings are worse than symbols, which at least don't carry implied meaning. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25215105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25215105