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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> My main goal is to use a regular expression syntax with fewer
> backslashes in my elisp code, in order to aid readablility and speed
> up debugging.

Are you aware of rx.el?  IMHO, this provides a much more readable and
nicer syntax than Perl regexps.