Saumitro Dasgupta <ether...@gmail.com> added the comment:
In my opinion, the main problem here is the element of surprise. Given a
statement like this:
foo.__annotations__['injected'] = bool
the expressed intent is "extend this object's annotations". It's surprising
that it can sometimes result in accidental mutation of the base's annotations.
This surprise may manifest downstream in other parts of the standard library
(like dataclasses in the example above), which can be a bit cryptic.
As a performance optimization, it makes sense. However, the element of surprise
probably can be improved upon. For instance:
- Explicitly disallow accidental mutation by presenting the parent's dict via a
MappingProxy
- Use a "copy-on-write" mechanism
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