Re: [boost] Requesting a review of Metaparse

Subject: Re: [boost] Requesting a review of Metaparse
From: Abel Sinkovics (abel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-29 05:51:48

Hi Chris,

> Two questions:
>
> 1) What are the upper limits on the kinds of parsers you can build?
> 2) How does the library compare to boost::spirit? Is there some reason you did not build it on to of that existing library?

1)

I haven't constructed parsers yet, that were too complex for the 
compilers I've been testing with, thus I don't know the limits yet.

2)

Parsers built with Spirit parse at runtime, while parsers built with 
Metaparse parse at compile-time and can produce things that can affect 
the compilation process. I've added this to the documentation 
(index.html). I can't see how it could be built on top of Spirit.

Regards,
   Abel