Re: scanner interface limitations

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-25 16:29:16

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 15:45, David Abrahams wrote:

>> The most proper solution would be to provide an additional (outer)
> 
> What's 'outer'?
> 
>> virtual function in the scanner class that can be used to get more
>> control over exactly what gets examined when scanning. It might be
>> neccessary to change the bjam core to do that, though. And maintaining
>> scanning speed is important there.

Seems I never answered this. All I meant was a method that gets control
over the overall search process, whose default implementation calls the
"inner" method (called pattern in the current implementation).

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Dave Abrahams
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