A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

[Wyatt]

On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 18:19:11 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>
> The ? of regexes is inside strings, so I think it causes no 
> problems. And I think it doesn't clash with the ternary 
> operator because before the ? wildcard you put a comma, a 
> semicolon or a #(.
>
I was primarily addressing the fact that there aren't many 
_meanings_ attached to the same character.  This was brought up 
before when someone talked about using an asterisk, but it was 
pointed out that it would be a bad choice because it's already 
commonly seen in multiplication, pointers, and exponentiation 
(**).

If anything, I'm inclined to think the regex heritage of the 
question mark improves its case.

-Wyatt