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<a href="../../../../../phoenix/doc/html/index.html" target="_top">Boost.Phoenix</a> makes
it easier to attach semantic actions. You just inline your lambda expressions:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">l</span><span class="special">[</span><span class="identifier">phoenix</span><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">lambda</span><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">expression</span><span class="special">]</span>
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<span class="emphasis"><em>Spirit.Lex</em></span> provides some <a href="../../../../../phoenix/doc/html/index.html" target="_top">Boost.Phoenix</a>
placeholders to access important information from the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">Context</span></code>
that are otherwise difficult to extract.
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<p class="title"><b>Spirit.Lex specific Phoenix placeholders</b></p>
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_start</span><span class="special">,</span>
<span class="identifier">_end</span></code></span></dt>
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Iterators pointing to the begin and the end of the matched input
sequence.
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_pass</span></code></span></dt>
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Assign <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">lex</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">pass_flags</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">pass_fail</span></code> to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_pass</span></code>
to force the current match to fail.
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_tokenid</span></code></span></dt>
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The token id of the matched token.
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_val</span></code></span></dt>
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The token value of the matched token.
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_state</span></code></span></dt>
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The lexer state the token has been matched in.
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<dt><span class="term"><code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_eoi</span></code></span></dt>
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Iterator referring to the current end of the input sequence.
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All of the placeholders in the list above (except <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">_eoi</span></code>)
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the lexer behavior. They are defined in the namespace <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">spirit</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">lex</span></code>.
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