[Python-Dev] Dataclasses and correct hashability

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/02/2018 10:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> It appears Eric and I are the only ones in favor of keeping the current behavior. But I still am not convinced by all
> the worries about "attractive nuisances" and all the other bad names this feature has been called. We don't know that
> any of the doomsday scenarios will happen. In my experience, usually once something is rolled out the set of issues that
> are *actually* raised is entirely different from the things its designers were worried about.

This may all be true, but consider how many times we have asked, "How does attrs handle that?"

It would be wise to also ask, "What pitfalls have attrs discovered, and what would they do different if they could?"

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~Ethan~