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Subject: Re: [proto] Xpressive --> Proto?
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-02 01:14:13
On 4/29/2011 5:04 AM, Hossein Haeri wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have an application with the following syntax (with which many of you
> are perhaps already familiar through my previous postings):
>
> x >> &f >> &g
>
> I can evaluate the above expression into g(f(5)) say when x == 5. I am
> quite pleased with how Proto manages this for the compile-time
> flexibility that it gives me.
>
> Now, I'm wondering whether there is any way in which the string "x >> &f
> >> &g" can be parsed into its Proto counterpart. So, I started reading
> through the Xpressive documentation with the hope of finding a piece of
> magic there. I am however not positive at all because, in effect, this
> would mean type construction at runtime.
Right, you can't do that.
> I would however be so delighted
> if someone here who can contradict me. Any ideas please?
Xpressive isn't doing what you think it's doing. There are two front
ends -- static and dynamic. Both build a DAG representing the FSM from
the same basic components. But in the dynamic case, the nodes in the DAG
are type-erased (polymorphic base pointers and virtual functions) and in
the static case, the nodes are statically typed. Dynamic xpressive
cannot build a statically-bound DAG for exactly the reason you cite.
-- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
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