Larry Wall Quotes on Regex

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  1. That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[eE]xp?|RE . . . Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns... :-)

  2. : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking...

  3. *** The previous line contains the naughty word '$&'. if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)

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