[boost] Re: [spirit] rule<> and copying

David Abrahams wrote:

"Eric Niebler" <eric@boost-consulting.com> writes:

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I have a new idea. Deep copy can be triggered by assigning to a dummy member:

rule<> a, b; a.rule = parser >> that >> refers >> to >> b; b.rule = parser >> that >> refers >> to >> a;

This allows: a = b; // shallow copy, creates alias a.rule = b.rule; // deep copy, modifies 'a' and all its aliases

xpressive now works this way. It's heavier syntactically, but far less confusing then using a special deep-assign operator.

I think

a->rule = b->rule

would be much more consistent with the other semantics of this thing.

<nods> Much better. I like. -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com