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		dougws on June 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why aaaaaa cannot be optimized to (aaa)(a... 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 the Kleene operator than as multiplication...

Natsu on June 22, 2011 | [–]

I'm glad to know that I'm not alone in doing this.

leif on June 23, 2011 | | [–]

I think you need a font where asterisk is not superscripted. Try Inconsolata.

rjh29 on June 22, 2011 | [–]

Me too, but that's probably because of all those regular expressions like 'aa* b*' I had to read at uni :)

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