Re: [Boost-users] Boost Lexer

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Lexer
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-03 21:52:31

> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Jerry Jeremiah
> <jerry.jeremiah_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > OvermindDL1 <overminddl1 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Boost already has a Lexer library (Boost.Spirit.Lex) with both static
> >> and dynamic table generation, what does this lexer library do in
> >> comparison?
> >
> > This is one of the reasons I wanted to find it.  It is on the review
> > schedule so clearly someone thinks it was worth the work.
> 
> Boost.Spirit.Lex is rather new, about a year or two old, so it might be
> newer then the one in the review queue...
> 
> Would be interesting to find it and see what happened to it, how it
> compares.

The library on the review queue (google for lexertl) is the one used under the hoods of Spirit.Lex. The plan is to make it a full blown Boost library. FWIW, the author, Ben Hanson currently works on a newer version, though.

Regards Hartmut
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