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		wendyshu on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language It has the advantage of using normal syntax rather than string literals (AST manipulation, formatting, static analysis, autocomplete, ...).

btilly on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

Regular expressions are their own language. The fact that we encode a DSL as a string is the problem for tools, and not the fact that strings are hard to handle.

If you offer a syntax extension other than strings to indicate the DSL coming next, and then have syntax highlighting for that DSL, then it would be fine.

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