C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

15.9.4. The eval Functions

The eval functions are the heart of our query system. Each of these functions calls eval on its operand(s) and then applies its own logic: The OrQuery eval operation returns the union of the results of its two operands; AndQuery returns the intersection. The NotQuery is more complicated: It must return the line numbers that are not in its operand’s set.

To support the processing in the eval functions, we need to use the version of QueryResult that defines the members we added in the exercises to §12.3.2 (p. 490). We’ll assume that QueryResult has begin and end members that will let us iterate through the set of line numbers that the QueryResult holds. We’ll also assume that QueryResult has a member named get_file that ...