On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:51:18 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > On 9/24/12 11:47 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > I just wanted to point out that it seems the largest trouble, > > implementation-wise, for DIP19 is the choice of parentheses to > > denote a tuple. If we do want to add built-in tuples, maybe we > > should be looking at a different delimiter. > > Indeed. The question is what mileage we get out of it. >
Since the issues with current tuples tend to discourage their use (at least for me anyway), it's hard to say without having them. Maybe it would help to look at languages that do have good tuples and see what kind of mileage they get out of them?