A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

eles eles at eles.com
Tue Aug 20 03:38:29 PDT 2013


On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 21:07:52 UTC, Meta wrote:
> A good, comprehensive design has the potential to make tuples 
> easy to use and understand, and hopefully clear up the 
> unpleasant situation we have currently. A summary of what has 
> been discussed so far:
>
> - (a, b) is the prettiest syntax, and it also completely 
> infeasible
>
> - {a, b} is not as pretty, but it's not that bad of an 
> alternative (though it may still have issues as well)
>
> - #(a, b) is unambiguous and would probably be the easiest 
> option. I don't think it looks too bad, but some people might 
> find it ugly and noisy

What about:

!!(a, b)

? Yes, is long, but is type-able quite fast.

Alternative would be:

??(a, b)

.


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