[pdal] RE: Gist notes

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Or to put it another way: "Just because you CAN do something clever with template metaprogramming doesn't mean you SHOULD."

:-)

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mateusz Łoskot [mailto:mateusz at loskot.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:08 PM
> To: mpg at flaxen.com
> Cc: pdal at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [pdal] RE: Gist notes
> 
> 2011/12/14 Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com>:
> >> IMHO, Boost.Spirit, ANTLR or any other good parser parser is always
> >> superior than hand-written processors.
> >
> > I already wrote the parser a couple weeks ago, using Qi  (and it does more than just expressions).
> >
> > It was an unpleasant learning curve, though, for someone with my level of C++/Boost experience...
> > Indeed, if it wasn’t for the very strong benefit of not having to add another tool to the PDAL
> > build dependency chain, I would not have used it.
> 
> Understood.
> 
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