Sure, but 1. It's pretty easy to expose a similar API, those are all functions 2. The documentation tools for the language naturally document the combinators.

Sure, but 1. It's pretty easy to expose a similar API, those are all functions 2. The documentation tools for the language naturally document the combinators. Even if the actual combinators are different, it's still a much better situation than the basilions regex syntaxes with completely different quoting and escaping mechanisms.