Should we deprecate comma?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/24/14, 5:44 AM, bearophile wrote:
> w0rp:
>
>> I am a regular Python user, and I advise against using this syntax for
>> tuples. I have been bitten many times by something which I thought was
>> a tuple becoming an expression and something I thought was a simple
>> expression becoming a tuple.
>
> I agree, 1-tuples in Python are tricky. Compare it with the clear Python
> list literal syntax:
>
> []        => 0-length list
> [1]       => 1-length list
> [1, 2]    => 2-length list
> [1, 2, 3] => 2-length list
>
> Unfortunately ASCII offers a limited choice of delimiters :-)
>
>
>> I don't have an alternative syntax to propose.
>
> Look at some of the syntaxes here:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP32#Use_case_of_uniform_tuple_syntax
>
> One of the syntaxes:
>
> @{}
> @{a}
> @{a, b}
> @{a, b, c}

WTF???

tuple()
tuple(a)
tuple(a, b)
tuple(a, b, c)


Andrei