Finally, Irregular Expressions

Description

A stock-photo-style image shows a serious scientist in safety goggles holding up a test tube filled with bright green liquid. Large white Impact-style text at the top says "Finally" and the bottom text says "Irregular expressions." The meme is a programming wordplay riff on regular expressions, imagining a cursed laboratory breakthrough that would make pattern matching even less predictable than regex already feels.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Irregular expressions: all the readability of regex, now with nondeterministic capture groups and no test suite strong enough to prove anything.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Irregular expressions: all the readability of regex, now with nondeterministic capture groups and no test suite strong enough to prove anything.
@nenten 5y

Wtf
Deleted Account 5y

Repost from reddit
Deleted Account 5y

Who posted it should at least give credits to the original poster
1. @doorhinge 5y
  
  i always do that
@nenten 5y

Evaluated expression: reply.text Return value: <a href="https://purninja-st.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/tmp-processed/gG1iFfQgtVzUoneZL0mbTrmx.png"></a>Irregex
@Strangerx 5y

RE2 the most irregular expressions I ever heard about
@tyomych88 5y

Irregular meaning Asian?