Tuple Format?

["Jürgen A. Erhard"]

>>>>> "Moshe" == Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> writes:

    Moshe> 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.

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

People don't have a problem because they don't use it... at least *I*
don't.  I didn't even know it's there...

Or I don't have to (what use is an empty tuple?)

A one-element tuple is something you *have* to deal with (at least for
the apply(...) case, I think).

Bye, J

PS: I had just learned that "parens don't build tuples, commas build
tuples", then you folks come along and get me back to square one.  The
tuple syntax is a bigger crock  than I thought.

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