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Really cool concept, yet not practical in my opinion. The classes and functions called to replace the regex I consider to be harder to learn than the initial regex. With regex there is a standardised, succinct way to query strings, while this system adds unneeded complexity for the sake of using English words. For quick uses integrated in other programs I can see the usefulness, yet as a standalone I'll stick with regex.

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The idea is having a set of entities on which one could reason better to implement more complex filters(regex) as well as debugging them. It is sort of a way of reasoning on filtering results it merely uses regex as an underlying tool.

One could write the filter using crocs format, compile it to regex then use in their programs. Using crocs you sort of define your data type then apply functions on those data types to fetch your required output.

The crocs framework is a way to give more power to your imagination and readability to others about what your imagination produces.

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