Re: B2 C++ engine development.

AMDG

On 10/25/2018 12:23 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:19 PM Steven Watanabe via Boost-build <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/25/2018 11:57 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> PS. One of the first items to think about is writing a new bjam language
>>> parser. It's about time we stop relying on bison/yacc + the tokenizer :-)
>>>
>>
>> What are you planning to replace it with?  A manual
>> recursive descent parser?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>> <snip>
>>
> 
> The one item it can get us is more flexibility in needing spaces to
> separate tokens. As it's easier to handle this in particular context
> sensitive locations. But I don't feel particularly tied to this.
> 

You do realize that I already did the work
for this, and enabling it is just a matter
of flipping a boolean constant?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe
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