I think the fact that it's impossible to know what could be in a dictionary without explicitly checking makes dicts an awful solution. A lot of times I'll encou

I think the fact that it's impossible to know what could be in a dictionary without explicitly checking makes dicts an awful solution. A lot of times I'll encounter functions that take maps, but I'll have to reverse engineer the surrounding code (and if I'm particularly unlucky, a related service) to figure out what goes in there. I'll take explicit types over dicts any day.