[eCa]

Personally, I would not use this. One of the powers of regex is the similarity (depending on complexity and structure) between the regex pattern and what a matching string looks like. By doing it this way, a lot of noise is introduced that can make parsing more difficult.

I don't find:

    find { matching { [word, "-"] }.multiple }

Clearer than:

    ([\w\-]+)

It might be an alternative way introduce regexes though.

I would also like to see a more complex regex written this way.

[krainboltgreene]

In that example I wanted to show off a the matching and multiple syntax.