
ALT Text Shot: He had a full map of an entire body of product code in his head and a deep understanding of the data structures and code paths—more than encyclopedic but organic as though his brain had merged with the code. In hindsight, I came to understand that great programmers have the same relationship to code and products as great writers do to words and complete works, or filmmakers do to camera shots and complete…

ALT The \Q...\E sequence is recognized both inside and outside character classes. An isolated \E that is not preceded by \Q is ignored. If \Q is not followed by \E later in the pattern, the literal interpretation continues to the end of the pattern (that is, \E is assumed at the end). If the isolated \Q is inside a character class, this causes an error, because the character class is not terminated by a closing square bracket.



















