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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.



Stefan Krah



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