Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC 0/7] QError v1

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/30/2009 06:15 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> If we're going to use JSON we should be 100% compliant with the JSON
> spec, not extend it. By adding custom QEMU extensions, we loose the
> ability for programming language to trivially talk to QEMU using a
> standard JSON parser, and instead everyone has to write custom client
> side code yet again.

The single-quoted-string extension is just to be used internally to ease 
writing JSON templates in C.  All emitted text will go through the JSON 
encoder, which will be conservative (no extensions) for the reasons you 
mention.

Paolo