Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/25] Introduce QEMU dictionary data type

[François Revol]

> > I'm worried about all those void *s as they move responsibility for
> > type safety and lifecycle management to the user.  I'd much rather
> > see
> > a QObject (or Object) with the following methods:
> >
> >   clone() - deep copy an object; dicts will store copies so we'll
> > avoid those leaks or a dictionary member modified after it was
> > stored
> >   destroy()
> >   type() - return the type
> >   as_dict(), as_string(), as_int() - convert to a subclass so its
> > methods can be used
> >
> > Consider an operation such as printing out the dictionary, you have
> > to
> > know the types of the values.
> >
>
> Note, if we decide we want this it could be introduced later to avoid
> excessive churn on this patchset.

Might as well just use C++ then :^)

François.