Making regular expressions more friendly

[Jan Decaluwe]

Ian Clarke wrote:
> 
> I have never liked regular expressions, they seem to come from the Perl
> school of programming (whose motto is "If nobody else `can understand my
> code, they can never fire me!").  Of course, it is not actually the
> regular expressions themselves that annoy me, it is the language they
> are written in.
> 
> What if, instead of using '(hello)*' you could use 'multiple("hello")',
> and other such long-winded replacements. 

That would be so nice that it has been done: take a look
at the source of python's standard tokenize.py module.

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