Tuple Format?

Ben Wolfson rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org
Sat Sep 2 15:09:27 EDT 2000


On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:32:55 GMT, nobody at nowhere.nohow (Grant Edwards)
wrote:

>Same problem as with using < and >, it's aready a binary
>operator, so the syntax is a bit ambiguous.  One thought would
>be to use the single quotes for tuple delimiters (as in `a,b,c'
>or `x' or `'). This has the advantage (in my mind) of reminding
>one that tuples are like strings: immutable.
>
>Nope, the only reasonable solution is an entirely new set of
>delimiters for tuples.  Everybody please queue up on left to
>have your keyboards replaced.

Backticks!  They currently don't do anything, as far as I can tell, that
repr() doesn't.

`a,b,c`

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