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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 th

• rjh29 15y ago
  Me too, but that's probably because of all those regular expressions like 'aa* b*' I had to read at uni :)
• Natsu 15y ago
  I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in doing this.
• leif 15y ago
  I think you need a font where asterisk is not superscripted. Try Inconsolata.