f---ing typechecking

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Feb 15 06:53:45 EST 2007


James Stroud wrote:
> skip at pobox.com wrote:
>> Concatenating tuples and lists seems logical if you think of tuples as
>> sequences.  If you think of them more like Pascal records or C structs
>> instead (I believe that's Guido's perspective on tuples) then it makes no
>> sense at all.
>>
>> Skip
>>
> 
> Then iterating over them makes no sense?
> 
Given Guido's assertions about the nature of the tuple, no it doesn't. 
But I seriously doubt that 3.0 will remove the iterable interface from 
tuples, despite its impurity.

regards
  Steve
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