[boost] [proto] interface changes

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-29 02:27:49

To all those currently using the proto expression template toolkit at 
boost/xpressive/proto (all 2 of you, you know who you are), this is a 
heads up that the code has been rewritten, and the interfaces changed 
considerably. The changes have been committed to HEAD.

The goals of the rewrite were many, but to sum up, the new code has a 
simpler, more uniform interface, integrates better with Fusion, and 
seamlessly supports ET nodes stored by value or reference. As a perk, 
xpressive now compiles 2x faster with vc7.1, and 25% faster with vc8. 
(No significant change with gcc.)

The people most interested would be the Spirit people. The changes are 
specifically to make proto a better platform upon which to build 
Spirit-2. Now that I have an interface I can live with, I'm more 
inclined to write docs, and I will.

The old proto v1 code from 1.34 now lives at boost/xpressive/proto/v1_ 
in the boost::proto1 namespace.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com