Is this a breaking change? It feels borderline.

Keyword-only subscripts are permitted. The positional index will be the
> empty tuple:
> obj[spam=1, eggs=2]
> # calls type(obj).__getitem__(obj, (), spam=1, eggs=2)


I.e. consider:

>>> d = dict()
>>> d[()] = "foo"
>>> d
{(): 'foo'}


I don't really object to this fact, and one could argue it's not a breaking
change since a built-in dict will simply raise an exception with keyword
arguments.  However, it does make the empty tuple the "default key" for new
objects that will accept keyword indices.

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