Re: [boost] Sprit, Tokenizer, and Regex

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-21 06:09:18

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryle Walker" <dwalker07_at_[hidden]>

> The just-reviewed Spirit library can do parsing work, just like the 
> Tokenizer and Regex libraries.  Do these three libraries use different 
> mechanisms, or could some of them be implemented in terms of the 
> others?  (It seems that Spirit allows the lowest levels of parsing.)

FWIW, Spirit supports boost.regex. Regex uses NFA while Spirit
is implemented using mutually recursive functions. These are quite
different beasts. I am not quite familiar with Tokenizer however.

--Joel