Perl's regex engine actually supports defining regex in human readable groups[0] which I think is pretty nice. In my regex engine[1], I'm adding support for a

Perl's regex engine actually supports defining regex in human readable groups[0] which I think is pretty nice. In my regex engine[1], I'm adding support for a blended mix of plain regex syntax and EBNF-like definition syntax, so you can do something similar. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1917982 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1917982 [1] https://github.com/hexops/zorex https://github.com/hexops/zorex