Emacs has a great rx macro that does something like that and is widely used in elisp projects. https://github.com/typester/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx

Emacs has a great rx macro that does something like that and is widely used in elisp projects. https://github.com/typester/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lisp/rx.el https://github.com/typester/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lis... Though then again the nice (best?) thing about macros is it gets inlined as a string at compile time anyways.