Why does boost::spirit::qi::parse() not set this boost::variant's value?
When trying to parse text into a boost::variant, the variant's value does not get changed. The parsers by themselves appear to work fine, so my assumption is that I'm doing something wrong with the variant code. I'm using boost 1.46.1 and the following code compiles in Visual Studio 2008. 1st Update hkaiser noted that the rule and grammar template arguments must not be Variant but Variant() . This got a bit "further" as I now have a compilation error in boost_1_46_1\boost\variant\variant.hpp(1304) . The comment says: // NOTE TO USER : // Compile error here indicates that the given type is not