> > > >How do these custom rules work, > They work very well :)
> > >who writes them, > There is a secret society of rule writers. They dress in all white, and sit in a dimly lit room high above the regex-muggles. (Except for one member who works in her spiderhole!) This group snubs their noses at reality. Favoring the warm glow of a CRT and the arcane beauty of often unused characters like ([/\*^$])\.. They are a restless bunch who feed on each other. Giving up their human emotions for the love of "Scoring on a big one." They begin every other sentence with, "I already googled....." There fingers are robust and strong from hours of pecking away at their craft. They could build a small hovel using nothing but their fingers as tools. There unquenching thirst for pattern matching is matched only by their ability to grep. Some often choose to decipher linguistic statistical abnormalities, rather then feed. They worship a similar, yet more powerful group know only as...Da Devs. We may never know their true identities. We can only listen to what the bards may tell of them. I wish I could tell you more, but I've already said too much. They grow close now. I must flee. --Hobnobyle of the shire. (OK, I was bored and it's almost time to go home!)
