well, I don't disagree that there's a tradeoff there - the s/ and =~ syntaxes are super neat, as opposed to the readable and consistent python style. I can see

well, I don't disagree that there's a tradeoff there - the s/ and =~ syntaxes are super neat, as opposed to the readable and consistent python style. I can see that as a reason for preferring perl's syntax, but I just don't understand hating python's regex, which is what my question was about.