[ryporter]

I agree that SRL is painfully verbose. I'm fairly experienced with regexes, and I found the new syntax to be far less readable. A better (and much simpler) way to make the regex more readable would be to split its construction into multiple lines (possibly using separate strings that are concatenated and given meaningful variable names). I already find myself often creating regex substrings that are then used in the construction of multiple, related regexes.

[qwertyuiop924]

And I think that SRE is far more readable than standard regex syntax, which is in turn more readable than SRL. SRE is lisp-like, though, so it's not for everyone.