On 09/08/2010 12:27 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida@gmail.com> wrote:
A spirit&wave implementation of the C++ grammar is useful in its own right.
I agree in the abstract, but how good must such a parser be for it to be useful?
My conclusion, then, is "no": Boost would not accept a C++ parser library that cannot parse Boost itself. That's the acceptance criteria, far more than any other technical concern.
On a meta-level: I see the same questions popping up again and again on this list. It apparently is considered way cool if the entire world could be recreated using boost components. While certainly fun and useful for educational purposes, I'm not convinced of the practicality of such a task. Not to speak of all the concerns that only become relevant after the library has been written and accepted, such as keeping (evil tongues would say making) boost maintainable, with such an ever growing set of components. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...