Hello, I am using boost 1.58 and I see the following. template <class Iterator> struct test_generator: karma::grammar<Iterator, std::string()> { test_generator(): test_generator::base_type(start) { using karma::ascii::string; using boost::spirit::ascii::char_; using karma::lit; using karma::buffer; using karma::debug; value2 = +(~char_(' ')); value1 = value2; value = lit('=') << value1; start = buffer[-value]; } karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> start; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value1; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value2; }; template <class Iterator> struct test_generator2: karma::grammar<Iterator, std::string()> { test_generator2(): test_generator2::base_type(start) { using karma::ascii::string; using boost::spirit::ascii::char_; using karma::lit; using karma::buffer; using karma::debug; value2 = +(~char_(' ')); value1 = value2; value = lit('=') << value1; debug(value); start = buffer[-value]; } karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> start; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value1; karma::rule<Iterator, std::string()> value2; }; template<class It> bool do_generate(It it, const std::string& x) { test_generator<It> g; return karma::generate(it, g, x); } template<class It> bool do_generate2(It it, const std::string& x) { test_generator2<It> g; return karma::generate(it, g, x); } //... std::string x2,x3; do_generate(std::back_inserter(x2), std::string("")); do_generate2(std::back_inserter(x3), std::string("")); std::cerr << "|" << x2 << "|" << std::endl; std::cerr << "|" << x3 << "|" << std::endl; //... The code prints: <unnamed-rule> <try> <attributes>[[]]</attributes> </try> <fail/> </unnamed-rule> |=| || I.e. introduction of debug() alters result of the generator. Could you please explain me where I am wrong? I am stuck now.