Why tuples use parentheses ()'s instead of something else like <>'s?

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

> There just isn't enough
> neat-looking punctuation in the ASCII character set.

Alex

I can't thank you enough for your reply and for everyones' great info
on this thread.  The end of your email gave a rock solid reason why it
is impossible to improve upon ()'s for tuples....

*There simply isn't enough good candidates in ASCII.*

Moving to Unicode has pros
and cons but your defense of parens assuming ASCII is perfect.
Thanks again.

Chris