[boost] Re: Is output formatting like Spirit? Was: Re: Formal review of"Output Formatters" library begins today

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-24 11:31:36

"Hartmut Kaiser" <hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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>
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>
> > >    I see the library as the inverse of Spirit. Spirit takes
> > a linear
> > > text and builds complex objects, while the output
> > formatting library
> > > takes complex objects and renders them as linear text. Just as an
> > > abstract syntax tree does not preserve all the information in the
> > > input text, in many cases it will be desirable to loose information
> > > when an object is formatted using the present library. For example,
> > > sometime you might want a dog to be formatted as follows
>
> I 100% agree with that. Moreover I have a first experimental implementation
> of such a library here, which is able to do formatted output controlled by a
> structure, which is very much similar to the Spirit grammar DSL. BTW, the
> name of this library is Tirips (reversed Spirit) :-).
>
>
> For instance you could write:
>
>     generate(str("abc") << char('d'), someoutputiter);
>
> Which will simply output "abcd". The different generator objects are
> parametrizable with lazy constructs:
>

<snip examples>

>
> I'm currently at the early stages of such a library so there isn't very much
> code to show, but if anybody is interested I'm happy to collaborate on
> discussing and implementing this.

I'm definitely interested.

Jonathan