Re: [boost] [proto] interface changes

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-29 04:02:49

Eric Niebler wrote:
> To all those currently using the proto expression template toolkit at 
> boost/xpressive/proto (all 2 of you, you know who you are), this is a 
> heads up that the code has been rewritten, and the interfaces changed 
> considerably. The changes have been committed to HEAD.
> 
> The goals of the rewrite were many, but to sum up, the new code has a 
> simpler, more uniform interface, integrates better with Fusion, and 
> seamlessly supports ET nodes stored by value or reference. As a perk, 
> xpressive now compiles 2x faster with vc7.1, and 25% faster with vc8. 
> (No significant change with gcc.)
> 
> The people most interested would be the Spirit people. The changes are 
> specifically to make proto a better platform upon which to build 
> Spirit-2. Now that I have an interface I can live with, I'm more 
> inclined to write docs, and I will.
> 
> The old proto v1 code from 1.34 now lives at boost/xpressive/proto/v1_ 
> in the boost::proto1 namespace.

Amazing, man! So cool!

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net