Re: [boost] Spirit Iterators

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-30 09:20:06

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From: "joel de guzman" <isis-tech_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] Spirit Iterators

>
> From: "Greg Colvin" :
>
> > This is just a vague feeling, but I wonder if using this
> > shorthand for repetition might not foreclose some more
> > interesting future use of operator() ?
>
> I had the same feeling while coding the feature...
>
> Joel de Guzman
>
> PS> Following Bruce Florman's suggestion, all of the global extern object
> declarations are now const declarations. Since there are no non-const
> operations being done on these objects (does not have data to modify
> in the first place), and since const objects are static by default, doing
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Since when? Have I missed something very significant?

> this
> eliminates the need for the ..cpp files that were there just to
instantiate
> the objects. So the whole framework is now composed of just header files.

-Dave