Tuple Format?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009011423130.22219-100000 at sundial>, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gene C wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone considered a different format for tuples to get around the
> >> somewhat strange single element tuple format? I find when explaining the
> >> language to others, the single tuple format always solicits a, "Thats
> >> weird."
> >
> >That's because you're not explaining it correctly. Paraphrasing the NRA,
> >"parens don't build tuples, commas build tuples". 
> 
> What about ()?
> 
> It's a tuple, but there are no commas, only parens.

Right you are! This is the special case, not the 1-element tuple.
But people don't have a problem with this, and it even looks nice.
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