Matt Hurd wrote:
Do you think Wave could be used for adding some syntatic sugar that would allow easy compile time programming of strings?
What concretely do you have in mind?
If I remember the main issue with such thoughts it was the clumsiness of the typelist of characters. A little non-standard sugar from Wave might solve that.
Been thinking about a compile time packet parser and how something like a spirit-like but at compile time would fit the bill.
Generally Wave provides you with the tokenised and preprocessed C++ input stream. This may be used to drive some kind of parser (a spirit parser will do). But Wave doesn't do any C++ related semantic analysis of the input stream. For instance you'll get the information that there was an identifier found in the input stream at a certain point, but you won't get any information about whether this is a variable, a class name, a typedef'd name, or perhaps a function name etc. I'm not quite sure if it is sufficient to have Wave around to solve the problem you've mentioned. Probably you'll need some kind of C++ semantic analysis for that (i.e. a parser for C++ or a significant subset). HTH Regards Hartmut