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On Friday, 13 July 2018 at 21:49:57 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 14/07/2018 9:28 AM, Manu wrote:
>> I've already contributed other points to this DIP in the way 
>> you describe.
>> This one however is very strange, and I'm surprised you can 
>> find the
>> hand-wavy introduction of a new attribute without any sense of 
>> where
>> it's going to be okay. Or maybe, I'm surprised I'm the only 
>> one that
>> finds problem with that.
>
> You are very much not alone.
>
> I didn't articulate it very clearly, but I am super not happy 
> with such a new attribute.

I'm not crazy about it either, but it may be a necessary evil to 
avoid breaking code (although it doesn't entirely avoid that, as 
has been demonstrated).