Re: [Boost-build] B2 C++ engine development.

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] B2 C++ engine development.
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-25 18:37:31

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:33 PM Steven Watanabe via Boost-build <
boost-build_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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_at_[hidden]> 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?
>

Yes. Haven't looked at how you did it though :-)

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