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Wave: a Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library

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Describes a free and fully Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library
/*=============================================================================
    Wave: A Standard compliant C++ preprocessor

    Definition of the abstract lexer interface
    
    Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Hartmut Kaiser
    http://spirit.sourceforge.net/

    Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software
    License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
    http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

    See Copyright.txt for full acknowledgements.
=============================================================================*/

#if !defined(IDL_LEX_INTERFACE_HPP_E83F52A4_90AC_4FBE_A9A7_B65F7F94C497_INCLUDED)
#define IDL_LEX_INTERFACE_HPP_E83F52A4_90AC_4FBE_A9A7_B65F7F94C497_INCLUDED

#include "wave/util/file_position.hpp"
#include "wave/language_support.hpp"

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
namespace wave {
namespace idllexer {

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
//  The lex_input_interface decouples the lex_iterator_shim from the actual 
//  lexer. This is done to allow compile time reduction.
//  Thanks to JCAB for having this idea.
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

template <typename IteratorT, typename PositionT = wave::util::file_position_t>
struct new_lexer_gen;

template <typename TokenT>
struct lex_input_interface 
{
    typedef typename TokenT::position_t position_t;
    
    virtual TokenT get() = 0;
    virtual void set_position(position_t const &pos) = 0;

    virtual ~lex_input_interface() {}
    
//  The new_lexer function allows the opaque generation of a new lexer object.
//  It is coupled to the token type to allow to distinguish different 
//  lexer/token configurations at compile time.
    template <typename IteratorT>
    static lex_input_interface *
    new_lexer(IteratorT const &first, IteratorT const &last, 
        position_t const &pos, wave::language_support language)
    { 
        return new_lexer_gen<IteratorT, position_t>::new_lexer (first, last, 
            pos, language); 
    }
};

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
}   // namespace idllexer
}   // namespace wave

#endif // !defined(IDL_LEX_INTERFACE_HPP_E83F52A4_90AC_4FBE_A9A7_B65F7F94C497_INCLUDED)

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