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[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are at least two ways to parse your statement, and they interpreted it differently from your intention.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess, if you ignore the comma...

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 2 points 8 months ago

Could’ve written like this to avoid the ambiguity: “I think advanced git knowledge, just like RegEx, …”

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rereading it, I now understand what you meant. I interpreted the "like regex" as an example of advanced git knowledge. I'm not sure the comma helps make it unambiguous though.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, reading it again and I can see that interpretation...

This is why you shouldn't rely on yourself alone for proofreading your writing, I probably could have read that a hundred times and not seen another way to read it without someone else pointing it out