On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Christian Ridderstr�m wrote:
> > Um... I don't understand it... OTOH I've never used Boost Spirit,
> > but that means it's not obvious if you're unfamiliar with that.
> > Could you give a link for Boost Spirit? (and maybe a few comments?)
>
> http://www.boost.org/libs/spirit/index.html
> http://www.boost.org/libs/spirit/phoenix/index.html
Thanks, I've added them (together Andre's link) here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/DevelTips/Links
> > And here's a part of the parser. But I don't understand it, guess I
> > don't know what for instance 'var' or 'self' mean/do... Is
> > 'expression' a variable? (what type?)
>
> 'expression' is a variable of type a 'rule' --- a class that stores
> the parser definition.
I saw in the docs that the idea is to simulate EBNF rules, so that
makes sense now.
Thanks for the explanation, it makes more sense now. (It looks like a very
convenient way to generate a parser!)
/Christian
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Christian Ridderstr�m http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
