> regex = re.compile(r"...")
> regex = p("...")
>
> is not that much different.
True, but when the literal is put somewhere far from the compile() call it
becomes a problem for static analysis. Conceptually a regex is not a string but
an embedded foreign language. That's why I think this discussion is worth
having. It would be nice with a way to mark up foreign languages in a way that
had some other advantages so people would be incentivised to do it, but just a
way to mark it with comments would be fine too I think if it's standardized.
Maybe the discussion should be expanded to cover the general case of embedded
foreign languages? SQL, HTML, CSS and (obviously) regex comes to mind. One
could also think of C for stuff like CFFI.
/ Anders
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