[thomasmg]

Thanks for reading and taking the time to respond!

> Doesn't this go against the "literals are enclosed in quotes" idea?

Sure, one could argue that other changes would also be useful, but then it would be less concise. I think the main reasons why people like regex are: (a) powerful, (b) concise.

For my V2 proposal, the new rule is: "literals are enclosed in quotes", the rule isn't "_only_ literals are enclosed in quotes" :-) In this case, I think `-` can be quoted as well. I wanted to keep the v2 syntax as close as possible to the existing syntax.