Hi Sina, What I meant when I said I could read the code was simply that I was glad that I was understanding a lot of it. It would really be instructive to me if you would help me understand a better way to write it, because I would love to learn OO correctly the first time. And I would be greatful if you would be able to do that. I know you are very busy. Thanks. Jim Jim Homme, Usability Services, Phone: 412-544-1810. Skype: jim.homme Highmark recipients, Read my accessibility blog. Discuss accessibility here. Accessibility Wiki: Breaking news and accessibility advice -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:22 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: boost::spirit and boost in general for c++ people. Good god, this is ugly. Seriously, you guys find that code easy to read? Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 10:07 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: boost::spirit and boost in general for c++ people. Snicker welcome to the future... Hmm how many times have I told you to use it and you told me no??? Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:09 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: boost::spirit and boost in general for c++ people. hello all: Recently I got into using boost a bit and started finding uses for it all over the place. I would like to encourage those who haven't yet and use c++ to check it out; it is quite powerful and can eas some of your work and provide really cool features along the way. For example: boost::function lets you take callbacks in multiple forms; boost::bind will let you bind a functor to it's arguments and pass that as your callback, which means you can bind to a static member function, a member function (and pass the object with boost::ref), a global function and you can also use boost::lambda. There are many more utilities out there; I highly recommend checking out boost::asio, boost::fusion, boost::function and boost::bind. In the spirit of convincing you all, I wrote a small calculator program that does single operations (1+3, 3*5), etc and returns the result. My next step is to split up my parsing into different rulesets and then work on generating an AST so that I can handle larger more complex calculations. /* A simple calculator, supports multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. */ #include <boost/spirit/include/qi.hpp> #include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix_core.hpp> #include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix_operator.hpp> #include <boost/spirit/include/phoenix_operator.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <boost/fusion/include/adapt_struct.hpp> #include <boost/fusion/container/vector.hpp> #include <boost/fusion/container/vector/convert.hpp> #include <boost/fusion/include/io.hpp> namespace qi = boost::spirit::qi; namespace ascii = boost::spirit::ascii; namespace phoenix = boost::phoenix; struct calculation { int a, b; char op; }; BOOST_FUSION_ADAPT_STRUCT(calculation, (int, a) (char, op) (int, b) ) template <typename iterator> class CParser:public qi::grammar<iterator, calculation(), qi::ascii::space_type> { qi::rule <iterator, calculation(), qi::ascii::space_type> crule; public: CParser():CParser::base_type(crule) { using qi::ascii::char_; using qi::int_; crule %= (int_ >> (char_('+')|char_('-')|char_('*')|char_('/')) >> int_); } }; int main() { CParser<std::string::iterator> p; std::string str; calculation result; std::cout << "Enter your calculation>"; getline(std::cin, str); bool r = phrase_parse(str.begin(), str.end(), p, qi::ascii::space, result); if (r) { std::cout << "a: " << result.a << " b: " << result.b << " op: " << result.op << std::endl; switch(result.op) { case '+': std::cout << "Result: " << (result.a + result.b) << std::endl; break; case '-': std::cout << "result: " << (result.a - result.b) << std::endl; break; case '*': std::cout << "Result: " << (result.a * result.b) << std::endl; break; case '/': if (result.a == 0) { std::cout << "Division by zero error." << std::endl; break; } std::cout << "result: " << (result.a / result.b) << std::endl; break; default: std::cout << "Invalid operation." << std::endl; } } else { std::cout << "Invalid input." << std::endl; } return 0; } -- Thanks, Ty __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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