Re: IMPORTANT need quick feedback on radical change
Martin Christensen <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:40:20 +0200
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>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Tismer <[email protected]> writes: Christian> According to some older statements from Guido, list Christian> notation suggests a collection of similar values. while Christian> tuples are typically used as heterogenous sets of Christian> values. Even immutability is not essential, but appearance Christian> is. This distinction between lists at tuples exists merely by convention, and even then it's not consistently used. While you do have a point, I don't think it's quite important enough to keep around an extra type, let alone extra syntax. What's more, the tuple syntax is not always the most obvious to newbies, but that's a fairly minor point. Martin -- Homepage: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~factotum/ GPG public key: http://www.cs.auc.dk/~factotum/gpgkey.txt
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