Re: [Haskell-cafe] "first class" tuples?

2009-02-17 Thread John Meacham
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:36:34PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > These declarations can even be found in some Haddock documentation. So at > least GHC has an upper bound on tuple size although the Haskell Report states > that there isn’t one. Actually, the report says implementations need on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "first class" tuples?

2009-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2009 14:42 schrieb Peter Verswyvelen: > Tuples in Haskell always have annoyed me a bit since each tuple of > different dimension is hardcoded You are not alone with this. Several people have complained about this in the past. > (I guess compilers enforce a maximum dimens

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "first class" tuples?

2009-02-17 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Look at the HList stuff by Oleg and others and you'll find the kind of tuples you suggest. 2009/2/17 Peter Verswyvelen : > Tuples in Haskell always have annoyed me a bit since each tuple of different > dimension is hardcoded (I guess compilers enforce a maximum dimension on > tuples?) > Since a tu

[Haskell-cafe] "first class" tuples?

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Tuples in Haskell always have annoyed me a bit since each tuple of different dimension is hardcoded (I guess compilers enforce a maximum dimension on tuples?) Since a tuple represents a fixed size data structure with different types at each coordinate, it feels as it should be possible to have a co