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Mon, 3 Aug 2020 18:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: cleanups with long-term benefits (was Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline) To: Paolo Bonzini , Markus Armbruster References: <20200729185024.121766-1-abologna@redhat.com> <87ime52wxd.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20200730093732.GB3477223@redhat.com> <87k0ylz0ep.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20200730132446.GL3477223@redhat.com> <875za33ku1.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20200731150738.GB3660103@redhat.com> <2cf1a431-9d2c-8ad6-446e-f10b36219764@redhat.com> <87d048i1m2.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <83bbe0b0-c5e0-e3b7-5ba1-5946098370d5@redhat.com> <87ft94klyl.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <490a0786-73f3-411e-4dfe-8c2ae90de251@redhat.com> From: John Snow Message-ID: <17a92222-2627-4961-b57e-1f1f5c86e14a@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 14:10:29 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <490a0786-73f3-411e-4dfe-8c2ae90de251@redhat.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; 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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Juan Quintela , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Yuval Shaia , Gerd Hoffmann , Andrea Bolognani , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Michael Roth , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Stefan Berger Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 8/3/20 8:01 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > That said, after a bit more research I'm skeptical about the possibility > of using an off-the-shelf parser because most of them either don't > support comments, or are based on YAJL which simply discards comments. Heresy: Docstrings could become part of the data format so they can be parsed, analyzed and validated. Parsers largely treat comments like non-semantic information and discard it. Round-trip parsers that preserve comments in any language are extremely rare. If the docstrings are relevant to the generator and aren't discardable, they should be fully-fledged data members. In a prototype I had for a YAML format, I just promoted docstrings directly to fields, so I could allow clients to query help text for individual commands. --js