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by oivey
1455 days ago
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That can turn into an enormous amount of work to provide all the permutations of type conversions between 3+ classes, and then manually shuffle between them over and over. It's even harder when you don't have the power to add similar conversions for the classes you're trying to convert to/from. Classes aren't a great abstraction when enforcing program invariants like "this object must at least have fields a and b." With a dict you can just have "dict(a=1, b=2, c=3)" and it works everywhere without serialization/deserialization and manual type conversions. Python's type checkers can't provide any safety for you if you do that, but that's a deficiency in the language, not the concept. |
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Can you elaborate on the functional difference between
- an enhanced dictionary where certain keys are guaranteed as part of the type, and
- a record type (class, struct, whatever) with named fields?