Perl6 attempts this: https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes I'm not sure so much innovation in syntax is going to help

Perl6 attempts this: https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes I'm not sure so much innovation in syntax is going to help adoption, but the aim was to make the syntax less code-golf-y and more readable.