On Mar 1, 5:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know Ruby, but I think it allows such purposes with a freezing
> function.
In ruby all objects can be frozen (freeze is a method on Object, from
which all other objects derive), not just Arrays (Arrays == lists in
python; ruby has no built-in c
George Sakkis, I agree with the things you say.
Sometimes you may have a sequence of uniform data with unknown len (so
its index doesn't have semantic meaning). You may want to use it as
dict key, so you probably use a tuple meant as just an immutable list.
I don't know Ruby, but I think it allows
On Feb 28, 10:45 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I know tuples as immutable lists ...
>
> That's a common misconception.
And this catch phrase, "that's a common misconception", is a common
aping of the BDFL's take on this. As severa
Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > A tuple implies a meaning associated with each position in the
> > sequence (like a record with a positional meaning for each field),
> > a list implies the opposite (a sequence with order but not meaning
> > associated with
