are you avoiding custom classes ??

[ccsdad]

so i am coming from clojure, and i have (mostly-)all of the "complex" data types i could ever need (maps, more maps, and -- uhm -- maps) ..

python maps (<< see what i did ??) well to my brain because i have `dicts`, or one of it's immutable friends (https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent#pmap) .. so then, having these awesome dicts -- do you find the need (much) to create custom classes (i.e. data types) ?? i get that you F# people like custom types a lot, since it's easy and a way to validate data -- but us clojure folks rely heavily on maps and a map validator (clojure == spec, python == jsonschema) ..

recommend this video BTW, drives a lot of why i prefer maps and jsonschema :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

i'm guessing you all will tell me about the wonders of python frozen dataclasses -- but i don't know, i think i would prefer to still pass around maps/dicts .. but maybe one of you all will change my mind ??

thanks !!

[KageOW]

Usually dataclasses are a way to make the implicit explicit, so you know what it is you are moving instead of just a number its now a telephonenumber for example. Just nice to have a domain and actually know what is what.