Re: [Cpptool-develop] MiniParser stuff (was: astdump runner...)

[Andre B. <and...@gm...>]

Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:

>Yes, and it's fairly common (pimpl idiom):
>class Main
>{
>   class Impl;
>};
>
>class Main::Impl : public BaseImpl
>{
>};
>  
>
Oh yes I forgot about that....

>>The miniparser stuff sounds good - seems to go into the direction of the
>>boost parser but a little
>>bit more lightweight. I like this idea, since much code of the
>>declaration parser is not very easy to
>>understand and I do feel that this could make some things easier.
>>    
>>
>
>Its strongly inspired from Boost.Spirit, but I took all the thing we don't
>need out, prefering simplicity over flexibility (we can have only one
>scanner, but it's enough for us). I started experimental with after fixing a
>few parsing issues with class declaration. There so much things that could
>be optional and different but similar alternative that the code was getting
>fairly complicated. The parser would solve this if we could get the matched
>ranges out, as well as the matched alternative.
>
yep I strongly agree with this - the declaration parser did get very 
complex and in some parts not
very readable.