Re: Qi parse retval vs iterators

Richard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general
Organization multi-cellular, biological
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <CAMEoF_GPuqcUTESbvfyXRJjauohRWB-voNoLf54DdAU9Z58drw@mail.gmail.com>,
    Michael Powell <[email protected]> writes:

> Something of a mind bender for me, how is it that qi::parse(...) can
> succeed (return true) and yet the iterator still not reach the end?

Because you might want to do something with the remaining input that
is independent of the grammar?

This is why many of the examples define success as: i) the parser
returned true and ii) the entire input was consumed.

-- Richard

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