Personally, I would not use this. One of the powers of regex is the similarity (depending on complexity and structure) between the regex pattern and what a matc

Personally, I would not use this. One of the powers of regex is the similarity (depending on complexity and structure) between the regex pattern and what a matching string looks like. By doing it this way, a lot of noise is introduced that can make parsing more difficult. I don't find: find { matching { [word, "-"] }.multiple } Clearer than: ([\w\-]+) It might be an alternative way introduce regexes though. I would also like to see a more complex regex written this way.