Re: [boost] Review Xpressive

From: Simon Buchan (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-25 20:04:07

Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> 
> 
>>* What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
>>
>>As others have indicated, there is some overlap with other boost libraries.
>>However, the emphasis of xpressive is different and
>>somewhat more flexible.
> 
> 
> Flexible in what way please? ;-)
> I should know, so I could steal that "flexibility" :P
> 
> Cheers,
He may be referring to Regex.  I don't think _you_ have much to worry 
about in that area :D.  The only thing I can think of is getting matched 
patterns, perhaps?  Something like push_back(parse(foo, some_rule)[4])?