Re: [boost] Phoenix as a Boost library

Subject: Re: [boost] Phoenix as a Boost library
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-14 10:02:31

PB wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 10:50 PM, Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/14/2010 10:41 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am curious to know if Phoenix will ever be released as a Boost
>>>> library, or is it meant
>>>> to be forever coupled with Spirit ?
>>>>
>>>> I have avoided it because it has never been released separately or had
>>>> its documentation
>>>> appear among the list of Boost libraries. I got the impression that it
>>>> would be released
>>>> separately, and expected to see it in Boost 1.44, but evidently that
>>>> did not happen.
>>>
>>> Thomas Heller completed the Proto port last July. Now the next
>>> step is to have a mini-review. Then, Boost integration, IFF it
>>> passes the mini-review.
>>
>> Thanks ! I am sure I am not the only one looking forward to seeing it as
>> a library of its own, and using it, if it passes the mini-review.
> 
> Me too! There's something holding me back conceptually using Phoenix
> in contexts where no Spirit parsing is actually taking place.

Is it just because you need to include header from a spirit subdirectory?

If you just want to use phoenix, use it! There is nothing wrong with phoenix 
v2. Once v3 got accepted, the only thing you need to change is the include 
directive (plus some little nifty detail: return type calculation protocol 
for function changed).