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 <
> boost-build@lists.boost.org> 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?