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name: Design considerations
about: We didn't think things through?
title: ''
labels: design
assignees: ''

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**What do we have now?**

Preferably with specific code examples.

**What should be instead?**

Preferably with specific code examples.

**Why?**

The upsides of your proposal.
* Who would benefit from this and how?
  - Would it be possible to cover new use cases?
  - Would some code become clearer?
  - Would the library become conceptually simpler?
  - etc.

**Why not?**

The downsides of your proposal that you already see.
* Is this a breaking change?
* Are there use cases that are better solved by what we have now?
* Does some code become less clear after this change?
* etc.