[Python-Dev] PEP 557: Data Classes (original) (raw)

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 totalcost(). 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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