• @owenfromcanada
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    97 months ago

    I didn’t know the Latin meaning. Makes more sense in the context of regex, now.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      47 months ago

      Maybe kinda? With matching the start of a line, it makes as much sense as $ matching EOL.

      • @owenfromcanada
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        57 months ago

        Yeah, not the start of line, but the inverse of the “any” pattern.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Yeah. We learned it as Circonflexe anyway, right? I know that carried from high school into coding well before I heard the Latin ;-)

      • @[email protected]
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        47 months ago

        TIL in French it’s “circonflexe” and English it’s “circumflex”.

        I’m guessin this is another Daniel Webster moment.

      • @owenfromcanada
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        07 months ago

        Circonflexe? Haven’t heard that name in a long time…