Assigning parsers to auto variables

Spirit Parsers are not designed to be used with auto in Spirit V2.

This is because the underlying Proto expression templates hold references to the temporaries.

You can use

  • qi::copy() (existing in the trunk after boost_1_55_0, not in any released version at this time)
  • boost::proto::deep_copy
  • or BOOST_SPIRIT_AUTO (first coined here)

I’ve written about these things more often on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A85371+deep_copy, specifically, this:

Boost Spirit X3 will not have this limitation.

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