Not being able to remember the fact that $ has special meaning in replacement patterns is really untypical. I understand mixing up $` and $_ for people w/o Perl background, but just forgetting the whole fact...
All in all, I think it's about not using a feature often enough to remember.
> I'm not going to argue that this is silly or wrong, because we all know the British have had clocks for longer than javascript has, so there is nothing to prove
Lol