I think at this stage, the idea is to get feedback on how to improve it, or maybe what to change completely, not saying "recommend this to all newbies to learn

I think at this stage, the idea is to get feedback on how to improve it, or maybe what to change completely, not saying "recommend this to all newbies to learn instead of regular expressions". I'm just guessing because it seems to be 4 hours old. Maybe for the purpose of a more interesting discussion, let's just assume everybody knows (how to look up the docs for) regular expressions, but sometimes they're still lazy or just feeling playful, and want to do the same stuff with a different syntax... and this is just one first prototype of how maybe to do that. No offense intended, no claim that this will supersede learning regular expressions implied.