alt Hacker NewsRegex in xml? Now you have 2 problems. And the comments are not xml comments even.
Ultimately it is a dsl. Should equations in math also use full words and comments?
No, they should not. Maybe a nice syntax for grammars like raku is a better approach.
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whattheheckheck • yesterday at 7:18 PM
Actually yes? If math equations also wrote a fluent English way of saying the full thing as well as the literal syntax as well every time it would help more people actually understand it.
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I couldn't care less if it looks more like XML or Python or C or whatever. It's just an example.
I just care that things have readable text names rather than inscrutable punctuation and single letters.
Yes, it is a DSL. Just like, you know, Python or C or HTML or CSS. Just because it's a DSL doesn't mean it can't actually use keywords instead of punctuation.