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		jwilk on May 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python "re" of course stands for regular expression... Oh wait, no. The person who came up with this name didn't think it through.

newscracker on May 11, 2018 [–]

Regular expressions is what I thought when I just saw the name, but it didn't make sense in this context.

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