RE: [boost] In the Spirit of Challenge

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-08 10:26:32

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> A very nice Spirit code sample would be the proverbial
> dogfood that C++ eats
> itself. To clarify:
>
> 1. How about an open-source C++ preprocessor (that takes care
> of #define and
> #include) written in Spirit? Then that preprocessor could be
> compared with
> existing preprocessors in terms of speed and conformance.

An almost complete preprocessor was included with the Spirit V1.3.X
package. It's currently under revision/reimplementation for the new
Spirit library. Macros with parameters were the only not implemented
features/operators.

Regards Hartmut