Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?(buttondown.email) |
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?(buttondown.email) |
That’s not an explanation, it’s speculation. The whole article was guess work and you picked something that sounded plausible. Ken Thompson is alive, why not ask and confirm? Then you could say you have an explanation.
Yes. You only need to speculate when you don’t have a firm explanation.
> disprove the author's explanation
Speculation is “the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence”, which is what the author is doing. They’re not explaining, they’re guessing at a reason.
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