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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [proto] helpful for a compiler project?
From: peter_foelsche_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-01-26 20:23:10

I assume that by "top-posting" you mean that I did not prefix my subject with [proto] -- sorry.

You are condescending.

I'm just trying to understand this new library to see whether there are any areas of applications for me.

I was already inside these examples.

It sounded pretty much like a compiler-compiler to me.

But I don't see any need to parse Object-Literals-expressions and execute them
-- isn't there already a lambda library?

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Eric Niebler
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 16:42
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost::proto helpful for a compiler project?

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
http://www.boostpro.com
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