Tuple DIP

[Timon Gehr]

On 01.01.21 19:53, Rekel wrote:
> Is this DIP dead?

Let's say it's hibernating. Originally I wanted to spend time on it 
during the hackathon at dconf 2018. Andrei wanted me to instead work on 
__mutable, claiming it was of strategic importance while tuples are not. 
He then completely binned __mutable later. Right now I am just too busy 
to champion this, and the lack of enthusiasm from decision makers does 
not help motivate me to attempt trading some of my health for tuples.

> Several parts of the proposal seem very nice to me, and it seems like a 
> waste not to have it considered. (assuming 
> https://github.com/tgehr/DIPs/blob/tuple-syntax/DIPs/DIP1xxx-tg.md is 
> the latest version of this not submitted proposal)
> ...

It's mostly a matter of rebasing/finishing the implementation and 
possibly arguing on the forums for a couple of weeks/months.

> Slightly unrelated, but wouldn't it be better to change the comma 
> operator to a different symbol entirely?

Ideally we'd just add tuple syntax and then use (..,..,..)[$-1] as a 
replacement for the comma operator.