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Il 17/06/2014 16:06, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
>>
>> For instance - could you unparent then reparent an object and have
>> it's aliases survive? I think the best implementation is to simply
>> place your original alias logic here under if (!target_name) and
>> return.
>
> Ok, so that would mean special casing target_prop == NULL.

Let's wait for Andreas's opinion.

Paolo