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

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:18:23 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

 Good point.