Shlomi Fish wrote:
>> I'm going to start learning C++ Templates Zen, for PPI's Tokenizer.
>> Wish me luck.
> But why do you need it? Isn't PPI written in Perl? Or do you mean something
> else beside http://search.cpan.org/dist/PPI/ ?
It is, but for performance, I'm writing a C++ port for its tokenizer.
Now, enabled with template mojo, I can write things like:
PredicateOr<
PredicateAnd<
PredicateNot< PredicateFunc< is_digit > >,
PredicateFunc< is_word > >,
PredicateAnd<
PredicateZeroOrMore< PredicateFunc< is_whitespace > >,
PredicateFunc< is_quote > >,
PredicateAnd<
PredicateIsChar<'\\'>,
PredicateFunc< is_word > > > regex;
Which implement the regex: /^(?: (?!\d)\w | \s*['"`] | \\\w ) /x.
And I get:
1. somewhat readable.
(probably C programmer will prefer this for regular expressions... :-)
2. no virtual functions
(because every class knows exactly the type of its inners)
3. most of the code will be inlined
(or so I hope)
4. I can make the whole thing static
I just hope that I won't have to convert it to C one day.
The compiler does so much work for me here, that I'd hate to do it myself.
If someone is interested in the C++ code that enable it, drop me an email.
Shmuel.
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