The tragedy of this SO question is that XHTML open tags are strictly regular and a regex will match them just fine http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags …
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This is called an "XX problem". "No, I really do need what I asked for. Please stop second-guessing me and answer the question as stated"
"Why do you want to do that?" is frequently code for "I don't know how to do that."
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"Why do you want to do that?" can also mean "I don't want to do that, and lack the empathy to envisage use cases other than my own"
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Common phrasing is actually "Why would you want to do that?" i.e. "I can't even conceive of your use case, let alone answer the question."
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@qntm@mcclure111 It's also means "That's a terrible idea, but the only reason I think so is because I haven't needed to do that yet"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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