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But they can escalade into stuff like https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js/blob/master/lib/markdown.js#L388 https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js/blob

• TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  It seems unwieldy at first, but if you look at it carefully, its intent is quite clear. The real problem with regexes is that in many languages, they can't have whitespace or comments, so documenting them is a problem.