Re: ELisp: special read syntax for regular expressions?

[Mike Mattie]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:17:10 +0000 (UTC)
Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:

> A few of years ago RMS asked me what one could do to make ELisp
> regular expressions more handable.
> 
> Now, when the support for Perl REx in CPerl mode is finally finished,
> I think I know the answer: one needs to allow a special read syntax
> for regular expressions (the result being an ordinary string).  This
> way one can avoid the acute backslashitis [by inverting \( and (,
> etc], the regular expressions may be specially indented, and the
> syntax highlighter would have a chance to remove most of the remaining
> complexity by proper highlighting (similar to CPerl one).
> 
> What do you think?

I would love it. Regex's don't need a slash tax to be cryptic.
 
> Yours,
> Ilya
> 
> P.S.  I put example of how my (Perl) test "code" is highlighted to
> 
>       ilyaz.org/software/tmp/CPerl-REx-highlight.png

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