Tuple Format?

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Sep 2 13:10:50 EDT 2000


Grant Edwards wrote:

> 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.

Then how would you ever distinguish between the _string_ 'a,b,c' and the
_tuple_ ('a','b','c')?

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