Re: [Boost-users] boost::proto helpful for a compiler project?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::proto helpful for a compiler project?
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-26 19:42:25

Please don't top-post. See
http://www.boost.org/community/policy.html#effective

peter_foelsche_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> peter_foelsche_at_[hidden] wrote:
>>> How can boost proto help me in my compiler project?
>>> 
>>> Is it another way to write a grammar and parse it?
>> 
>> If by "compiler" you mean something that reads a text file, parses
>> it according to a grammar and Does Something, then Proto is *not*
>> what you are looking for. Use Boost.Spirit.
>> 
> ok. Can you give me an application area for boost::proto? In short I
> don't understand what DomainSpecificEmbeddedLanguage means.

The term is defined in Proto's documentation, and many examples are
given there.

http://boost-sandbox.sf.net/libs/proto

HTH,

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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