bracing for a firestorm

[Greg Ewing]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> I'd much rather there were tuple delimiters.

Well, it would be fairly easy to change the grammar
so that parentheses were always required around tuple
constructors. But then you'd still have a special
case for 1-tuples.

Fixing *that* would require a dedicated set of
brackets just for tuples. Maybe with Unicode we'll
one day have some more types of brackets to play
with -- ASCII just doesn't have enough!

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