On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:41:56PM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi,
A weird question, what does the 1 element tuple look like?
() -- 0 element tuple
(,) a b -- 2 element tuple
(,,) a b c -- 3 element tuple
() a - meaningless
(a) - a in brackets
GHC has the 1 element unboxed tuple, (# a #), and all the other sizes
unboxed as well, but how would you visually represent the 1 element
boxed tuple?
As it happens, Yhc _does_ have the 1 element tuple, you just can't use
it from normal programs, its only created by desugarings of class
instances. I'd quite like to change this, and I also need to render
the 1 element tuple in some way, so wondered if anyone had any good
ideas (or if there is even some sort of convention)
I currently use ()1, but don't like that as it doesn't follow Haskell
rules - the () and 1 would be separate lexemes. My other thought is
(?), where ? is something appropriate - but all the appropriate things
I can think of would either not be a lexeme (i.e. 1), having an
existing meaning (i.e. . | etc) or seem wrong.
Thoughts?
Python seems to use (1,) which seems reasonably clear.
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Dennis Griffith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer
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