Re: Jam's space-sensitivity

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-26 11:42:55

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
> all most of you know, Jam is sensitive to spaces. A typical first user's error 
> is:
>
> exe a : a.cpp;
>
> The attached patch attempts to fix that. Now, whenever bjam sees ';' outside 
> of quited string, it terminates the current token.
>
> It would be good to handle other symbols ( '[', ']', ':' ) in the similar way, 
> but unfortunately, they can appear inside variable accesses, for example:
>
> gFILES($(targets[1])) = fff ;
>
> During scanning, it's not easy to find if we're inside variable access or 
> not, so those symbols can't be safely handled.
>
> Opinions? Should I commit this?

Bad timing, IMO. We should consider syntactic innovations as part of
the Python port.

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Dave Abrahams
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