On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 3/21/17 6:41 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote: > >> JSON allows comments if all the JSON processors we use handle comments. :) >> > > JSON.parse in JS does not. > > The Python "json" module does not as far as I can tell. > > What JSON processors are you thinking of? > > -Boris > > P.S. The Python "json" module is most relevant here, since it's the thing > actually being used to deal with MANIFEST.json. Fun fact: lots of JSON documents also evaluate as Python data structures. So if you prepend "foo = <JSON>" and throw that into eval(), you can magically evaluate a JSON document into a Python variable. Of course, eval() is a security concern. But people blindly execute code in mozilla-central (like the build system) all the time. So perhaps this is tolerable. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
