Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: use PRId64 instead of %lld

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 06:58:32AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/26/2010 06:46 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Yes, I agree we are comnpliant.
>> But I also think we should be strict and reject non-JSON
>> input just so that clients do not come to depend on it.
>>    
>
> If we can make JSON better while preserving compatibility and adhering  
> to the spec, why wouldn't we?

Adding '' seems very little gain. The pain point wouild be
supporting multiple syntax variants, and inability to use
external tools to parse such traffic.

> For instance, at some point in time, we're going to do have to do  
> something about floating point representation.

What's the issue? There's '.' and there's 'e' ...
And maybe we won't need floating point ever ...

> We have the ability to  negotiate these capabilities at run-time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

If there's an important capability this might make sense.

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