[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/6] json-lexer: Handle missing escapes

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/20/2010 10:35 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > I meant that we're just accepting some invalid JSON and that's not a big
> > deal.
> >      
>   It can become a big deal if clients rely on it and for some reason we
> decide we should drop it. Ie. after QMP is declared stable such changes
> won't be allowed.
>    

Clients should only rely on standard JSON.  Anything else is a bug in 
the client.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   Yes, I know, the chances of someone relying on this kind of thing is
> probably almost zero. At the same time I think we should be very
> conservative if there's no good reason to do otherwise.
>