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[Python-Dev] PEP 557: Data Classes

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 16:52:54 EDT 2017 
Let's all please take a time out from the naming discussion.

On Sep 14, 2017 11:15 AM, "Stefan Krah" <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:06:15AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On 2017-09-14 10:45, Stefan Krah wrote:
> > >I'd expect something like a C struct or an ML record.
> >
> > Struct is taken, and your second example is record.
>
> *If* the name were collections.record, I'd expect collections.record to
> be something like a C struct or an ML record. I'm NOT proposing "record".
>
>
> > >     from dataclass import dataclass
> > >
> > >This is more intuitive, since the PEP example also has attached methods
> > >like total_cost().  I don't think this is really common for records.
> >
> > Every class can be extended, does that mean they can't be given
> appropriate names?
>
> A class is not a record. This brief conversation already convinced me that
> "record" is a bad name for the proposed construct.
>
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> Stefan Krah
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