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I would like to have this as a feature in the language without having to import another "magic" module, something similar to case classes in Scala. Let me drea

• 0x0dea 11y ago
  Ruby's Struct is pretty nifty. Person = Struct.new :name, :age people = [ Person.new('Alice', 42), Person.new('Bob', 23), Person.new('Carol', 30) ] people.sort_by(&:age).map(&:name) # => ["Bob", "Carol", "Alice"]
• aw3c2 11y ago
  It's hardly a magic module, collections is part of the Python standard library. https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html
  • maxerickson 11y ago
    It's kind of magical: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/collections/__init__.py#l284 https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/collections/__ini...
  • robohamburger 11y ago
    If you look at the code for it you will weep. If only python had hygienic macros. I would settle for better namedtuple syntax though.
    • rch 11y ago
      I always thought it was left as-is to further discussions about how it should be, without having to overcome a crowd of people claiming it's good enough already.