[boost] Re: [spirit][phoenix] operator[] hack for std::map

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-01 21:49:33

Ronald Garcia wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I've been working on a parser in Spirit that uses Phoenix and came 
> across an item that I needed to support:
> operator[] on std::map.  Perhaps I overlooked this feature somewhere, 
> but based on the  code in operators.hpp, I crafted the following code 
> for myself:
> 
[...]
> 
> I suspect that it would need generalizing to be added to Phoenix as it 
> comes with Spirit, but I thought that it would be useful to alert others 
> of the desire for this feature, if not supply a full implementation (I 
> really don't have the time :( ).

There's a full implementation available which includes a lot more
(e.g. lazy container functions) by Angus Leeming. It's been lurking
around for a long time already. I'll make it a point to make it
available in the next release. Angus?

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Joel de Guzman
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