"John Bytheway" <jbytheway+boost@gmail.com> wrote in message news:j9qp21$f09$1@dough.gmane.org...
On 13/11/11 23:39, Gene Bushuyev wrote:
Sorry if it turns out to be a duplicate, it looks my original post was lost in cyberspace, so I'm re-posting this request.
I'm trying to determine if there is a sufficient interest for including AXE C++11 recursive descent parser generator library in Boost. The zipped sources and documentation are here: http://www.gbresearch.com/axe/axe.zip
People are more likely to investigate if you can provide a link to the documentation online somewhere, so they don't have to download and extract a zip file.
It would also be useful to explain briefly how it compares with Boost.Spirit.
John Bytheway
It's true there is a significant overlap with Spirit. It's also true there is more than one way to do the parsing, so some people will be more comfortable with Spirit, and I have reasons to believe some people will be more comfortable with AXE. There are differences, importance of which depends on personal perspective and needs. I tried to summarize below what I would consider advantages of AXE: * it's a much smaller header only library: 15 files, 126 KB total * it has no dependencies on other libraries apart from the Standard library * it uses only standard facilities, so theoretically it should work with any C++11 compiler without any modifications * compilation times are much shorter than Spirit * the syntax is less cryptic than Spirit, so it's easier to remember, write, debug, and read parsers written in AXE (this is, of course, subjective) * in my limited comparison, parsers written in AXE take fewer lines of code to write, and development times are shorter Disadvantages: * AXE requires C++11 compiler, current status of compiler support is unknown * It's been released recently, thus there is limited experience working with it The link to the reference is here: www.gbresearch.com/axe/reference.pdf -- Gene Bushuyev