3 Sep
2004
3 Sep
'04
3:05 p.m.
Neal D. Becker wrote:
Can xpressive be used as scanner with spirit, in the (spirit) of lex + yacc?
It hasn't yet been tried. But Hartmut once wrote an interfacing layer so that xpressive regexes can be embedded into Spirit rules. The intention was to use xpressive as a lexer for Spirit in Wave, Hartmut's pre-processor. It hasn't been attempted yet, AFAIK. <aside> The future for xpressive and Spirit looks very interesting. Joel and company have been planning Spirit-2, and we plan to use some ideas from xpressive to give Spirit-2 optional exhaustive backtracking semantics. The plan is to bring these two libraries closer together. </aside> -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com