One thing that annoys me a bit about the JS syntax though: As far as I know, JS regexp literals don't have custom delimiter support. For instance in perl you ca

One thing that annoys me a bit about the JS syntax though: As far as I know, JS regexp literals don't have custom delimiter support. For instance in perl you can do this: $str =~ m{/some/path/\w+} But in JS you need to escape the / characters, or use a normal string as an argument to Regexp, in which case you need to escape the backslashes: /\/some\/path\/\w+/ Regexp("/some/path/\\w+")