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In reply to [http://rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Markov_Algorithm&diff=70238&oldid=70234]: see [http://books.google.com/books?id=qYd35MUlSm4C&lpg=PA414&ots=rV71zja7-n&dq=%22series%20out%20of%20control%22&pg=PA414#v=onepage&q=%22series%20out%20of%20control%22&f=false] (ugh, what a horrific URL!). I'm not gonna change it back, because that would feel too much like edit-warring to me (and heaven forbid I should edit-war over grammar), but I think most professional editors would prefer my version. —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] ([[User talk:Underscore|Talk]]) 20:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
:I thought I was taught that A, B, C, and D; was to be preferred over A and B and C and D. My partner concurs? P.S. I
::You're quite right that "A, B, C, and D" is in general better than "A and B and C and D", but that's not the issue here. Look closer at the explication I linked to and at your own sentence. Here's the latter with the irrelevant parts removed:
:::This regexp is multi-line, verbose and uses named groups.
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