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Vegans? Veg[a..z1..9A..Z]ns? Are there any vegyns out there who object to being put on the meat/no-meat spectrum? Are you afraid HN will censure you if you spell out the complete word?


Really now. It's obviously veg.+ns: vegans and vegetarians.


Oh aha thanks for pointing that out. Now that you mention it that does seem obvious. I definitely didn't catch that from the first use though. There should be a better word to capture both those meanings that doesn't confuse my poor regex sensibilities like that. :|


My regex sensitivities only warned me about the persecution of veggggggggns.


I was more concerned about the vens


It's a regular veganza in here. (I'm sorry)


I didn't get that either; not that obvious after all! I thought they were making a joke about vegan being a swear/taboo word, given the context of saying people don't want to hear of it because it allegedly threatens their morality


veg(etari)?ans


I suppose I really should use veg.*ns




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