Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] Templates and Namespaces

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [Quickbook] Templates and Namespaces
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 23:18:46

on Thu Aug 02 2007, Bjørn Roald <bjorn-AT-4roald.org> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Thu Aug 02 2007, Bjørn Roald <bjorn-AT-4roald.org> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>
>>> This only takes you a bit on the way.  Code snippets and comments may be 
>>> unbalanced at least when viewed as general text, contained strings, 
>>> comments and '[' and ']' characters need to be ignored.  So what is 
>>> needed even with emacs is a quicbook mode.  
>>>     
>>
>> Voila.  
>
> Neat, I will try it when I test out quickbook.  I had the feeling you 
> had this laying around.
>
>> But it sometimes has real performance problems.  Emacs modes
>> are really hard to write.
>>   
>
> I know, I for one have never done much more than some simple hacking in 
> elisp.
>
> However, the point of my posting was more directed at your statement 
> that all editors can balance  [ ].  Now I get the feeling you say it was 
> hard to get it right, even in emacs ;-) 

No, the [ ] balancing was right OOTB.  It was other stuff that was
hard to get right.

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