Ack! I must've read the same thing, because I wrote something along the same lines. I was going to finish writing the POD this weekend and post to CLPM, to upload to CPAN later. (My first upload to CPAN!)

There are two main differences that I can see right now. First, I called mine Regexp::Wordy (with a P ;-) based on the idea that it was using words instead of symbols to describe regexes. Although it is in English.

Second, I avoided using OO style. My rationale was that this would mainly be of use to newbies, so I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. If you haven't got the hang of /^\s+[a-m]*\d{3}/, you'd probably be intimidated by the $foo->Regex::Wordy stuff too. If I'm reading your example right, with this module you would render it as: 

use Regexp::Wordy qw(:all);
if ('1998/10/08 [11:10]' =~ regexp(
    at_bol,
    clean('1998/10/08'),
    any_number(space),
    clean('['),
    remember(
        one_or_more(
            either(':', digit))),
    nondigit))
{
    print "Found a match at time $1\n";
}

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As you can see, some things are still clumsy. I didn't think about passing in a ref to be set instead of $1, etc.

I'd be glad to send you what I have, but I couldn't find an address on your home node or web site. I have an obfuscated address on my home node if you'd like to email me instead.

In reply to Re: Pondering Regex::English by VSarkiss
in thread Pondering Regex::English by chromatic

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