Re: rx.el sexp regexp syntax

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > FWIW, I think its verbosity is RX's main *advantage*. It makes regular
>   > expressions so much easier to read that I stopped writing regex strings the
>   > moment I discovered RX.
>
> The clearer representation of structure is not the same thing as
> verbosity.  rx does both, but they are not the same thing.  We could
> envision making the structure more or less equally clear without
> making the patterns so long.

Itʼs not clear to me how you'd do that. Looking at rx-constituents,
quite a few of the verbose ways of specifying what to match already
have a succinct version, eg

sequence => and
zero-or-more => *

and frankly being able to write 'bos' rather than remembering '\\`' or
'symbol-start' rather than '\\_<' is a net win in my eyes.

Robert