Re: cool generators insight

From: David Abrahams (gclbb-jamboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-05 17:29:48

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> In the current system you can describe it by creating a generator STATIC_DATA 
> <- ECPP, which will 
> 1. Create CPP from ECPP by recursive call to 'generators.construct'.
> 2. Take a first CPP and convert it to NM_ASM by another call to 
> 'generators.construct'.
> 3. Convert NM_ASM to STATIC_DATA
> 4. Return STATIC_DATA and the second CPP
>
> If you take a look at Jamfile for part of this example, still at
> http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/Jamfile.v2
> you'll notice similiar approach.

Looking again, I think I understand you a little better. I think
that sort of thing is easily handle-able at the top level, without
intruding on the generator algorithm, but I'll have to look more
closely.

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Dave Abrahams
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