Re: IMPORTANT need quick feedback on radical change

Martin Christensen wrote:

>>>>>>"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.

i still don't know for what tuples are good for in python. i'm not an 
advanced programmer and i always found it confusing.