Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Fix confused output for alias properties

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 16/09/2014 12:37, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> str really should be for free-form strings.
> It makes as much sense to call it as string

Yes, that's why I said drive->str is a degradation.  The question is,
how important is that degradation?

> as it is to call an integer a string because you type
> a string of characters to specify it.

I disagree.  This is true for the command line, and for historical
reasons it is also true for device-add, but the newer QOM commands are
type-safe.  You cannot pass an integer as a JSON string '123' to qom-set
or object-add, for example.

Paolo