Re: Design/structure X3 parser more like Qi parser

Larry Evans <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/02/2016 04:29 PM, Seth wrote:
> On 02-12-16 12:33, Sandro Pirkwieser wrote:
[snip]
>> so far we used Spirit Qi for our parsers. Mainly due to large
>> compilation times we were eager to experiment with X3.
> If you don't mind my asking, what have been other limitiations you have
> run into?
>
> Personally I miss other things the most (like qi::lazy, qi::locals and
> inherited attributes). Basically anything that could make a parser
> stateful is harder in X3, and even with `x3::with<>` the semantics are
> subtly different in unfortunate ways.
>

Seth, would you happen to know why it was decided to not have
inherited attributes in X3?  Maybe compile times would suffer too much?

TIA.

-regards,
Larry





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