Re: [Boost-users] top posting, was boost::proto helpful for a compiler project?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] top posting, was boost::proto helpful for a compiler project?
From: raindog_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-01-26 21:14:24

I know its a rule, but I think it is dumb. My phone does not even support botting posting for example, does that mean I'm not allowed to post to this newgroup?  my guess is that it started off with a few people wanting to separate themselves from others by usage of arbitrary rules in order to obtain some form of "l33tn3$$" without having actually considering the merits or lack thereof ubtil after their motives were question in which scenario artificial ones were created to support the habbit. 

Modern mail clients (my phone not one of them) support threaded mail anyways and so what you get is the same email. 100 times in a thread. 

There has been the argument that if you were ob a forum that they go by bottom posting but again modern mail clients support threading anyways, and I don't know about you, but I can't recall the last time I was reading a forum and every post included included the entirety of the posts to the thread prior. 

Lastly, why would you ever want to pick up a thread by reading the middle of it? Using the forum analogy, one would be hard pressed to find someone whose month was to always read a thread by starting on page 12, so, group by thread and read from the start
------Original Message------
From: Eric Niebler
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Sent: Jan 26, 2009 4:42 PM
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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