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Comment by mannyv

2 days ago

This is either a bad engineering choice or an intentional bug. An empty string would have been better. Why '*' instead of, say, a tilde, @ symbol, or something that generally isn't used?

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NewJazz  1 day ago

I'm not entirely sure an empty string, tilde, or @ symbol would really have been better, except in retrospect.

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