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Data classes are another useless, slow Python hack elevated to a language construct. The old boys love these hacks since they think it shows how versatile Python is.

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It's not useless. Hack maybe (uses type annotations but they are not checked unless you add something besides vanilla python. I.e they can lie.)

Why is this post flagged? I cannot see what has been said because someone with a bit of power decided for me. I hate it when people do that.

Could you please share the contents?

The ability to see flagged posts can be enabled in settings with the showdead option.

Thank you.

Unsurprisingly, there's nothing wrong with what that person said. Seems like the people who posted this news item were butthurt. Oh so typical

Think about it this way. If a user gets enough upvotes they get a link to "vouch" for a dead post and possibly undelete it. Would you vouch for that post? Would you say "This kind of post is what we need on HN"? I think it adds little value, even if there's "nothing wrong with it".

It's a completely new account that was created specifically to write a negative comment in a post. Maybe that's enough for the flagging?

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