tuple sumlimation

[Bill Baxter]

Kevin Bealer wrote:
> Currently, Tuples are sublimated into argument lists.  What do people 
> think of using an operator (say, *) to prevent this?  The reason I ask 
> is that the current technique makes it hard to pass multiple tuples on 
> the same function call.
> 
> I think it's not absolutely required; currently you can pass the tuple 
> lengths, let the tuples melt together, and then split them with slicing.
> 
> Kevin

I think Walter and Andrei are very aware that the inability to make 
Tuples hierarchical is a hindrance to many kinds of algorithms.

But definitely some way to make hierarchical tuples is a must.  Lisp 
without nested lists is close to useless.

The * type of syntax is used in Python to control expansion of tuples 
into arguments.  Though I think it's kind of backwards from what you're 
saing -- func(*args) causes args to be passed as separate arguments, 
func(args) passes it as a single argument that is a tuple.  Personally I 
think that makes more sense.   Automatically expanding as the default is 
kind of odd.  No other argument type modifies itself in funky ways when 
you pass it to a function.

--bb