Is str ~ regex the root of all evil, or the leaf of all good?

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley escribió:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Also, "I think I don't like X" is not proper English.  Say "I don't
>>>>> think
>>>>> I like X" or just "I don't like X" instead.<
>>>
>>> To Jarrett: why isn't it proper English? It makes sense to me.
>>
>> Andrei did a pretty good job of explaining indirectly why it's wrong ;)
>>
>> If you say "I think <something about myself>", it sounds very strange,
>> because it sounds like you don't know what's going on in your own
>> brain.  "I think X" often means "I'm not sure of X", so saying that
>> you're unsure of what you do or don't like sounds odd indeed.

And yet sometimes that is exactly the case.

---bb