My first thought was that "Verbal Expressions" are simply parser combinators, which of course can do things that individual regular expressions can't do. From t

My first thought was that "Verbal Expressions" are simply parser combinators, which of course can do things that individual regular expressions can't do. From the examples though it looks like this is just translating to regular expressions under the hood, which would make it considerably less powerful than Parsec and other parser combinator libs.