[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6]: QMP: Fix issues in parser/lexer

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/19/2010 11:43 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > 4. Lexer expects a 'terminal' char to process a token
> >
> >     Which means clients must send a sort of end of line char, so that we
> >     process their input.
> >
> >     Maybe I'm missing something here, but I thought that the whole
> >     point of writing our own parser was to avoid this.
>
> If the lexer gets:
>
> "abc"
>
> It has no way of knowing if that's a token or if we're going to get:
>
> "abcd"

Only } and ] are valid characters at the end of a JSON object, and 
neither requires lookahead.

Paolo