This post touches upon a subject that I really wish was more adopted: having alternate syntaxes for the sake of _clarity_. Syntax "bread" to the syntax sugar.

This post touches upon a subject that I really wish was more adopted: having alternate syntaxes for the sake of _clarity_. Syntax "bread" to the syntax sugar. For example, regular expressions and date strings can be written in a nice and compact form, but how nice would it be write `Not(DigitalCharacter)` instead of `\D`? Or `TwoDigitYear` and `FourDigitYear` instead of `y` and `Y`. The same convenience exists in short and long command line flags; and optional named parameters in function calls.