Tuple Format?

piet at cs.uu.nl piet at cs.uu.nl
Mon Sep 4 08:44:22 EDT 2000


>>>>> "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> (DT) writes:

DT> Monday morning ... of course the back-quote is used as shorthand for
DT> repr(). This makes parsing the two-character one interesting ... we can
DT> actually end up with the equivalent of a single-element list which is
DT> the result of the repr().

DT> [` a, b, c `] == [ repr(a, b, c) ]

Make it (| a, b, c |) then, this is currently illegal syntax and resembles
the current notation. Not that I believe this will ever be accepted.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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