Well, it's part of Ruby's philosophy: provide clean, readable and understandable code. I'm a huge fan of regular expressions and I love to discover new ones, t

Well, it's part of Ruby's philosophy: provide clean, readable and understandable code. I'm a huge fan of regular expressions and I love to discover new ones, try to improve my own, etc. But, it does not mean there isn't place for a human readable regex syntax, and I will definitely give it a try.