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> "should" this would make python a different language completely

• Spivak 9y ago
  I mean it would certainly be a breaking change to existing code, and we know how well that goes over in the Python community, but it wouldn't be a completely different language. The argument is that these objects are a sane default that would prevent a lot of accidental programming mistakes and I agree.
• vidarh 9y ago
  See my comment elsewhere about a "split" approach to this for a Ruby implementation. I get that there's a semantic difference to change from __dict__ to the way __slots__ currently works, but it might be feasible to change the way __dict__ works to inline instance variables in the instance by default in cases where they're readily statically inferred and get much of the same effect without changing the semantics of __dict__.