[Haskell-beginners] Re: Why is there no notion of a one-tuple (e.g., a '([])' as opposed to a '[]') in Haskell?

[Aaron Denney]

On 2008-09-24, Benjamin L.Russell <DekuDekuplex at Yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Haskell doesn't have a notion of a one-element tuple.
>
> Why not?

In addition to the syntactic nightmare mentioned, or the possible loss
of parenthesized expressions, it's just plain not necessary.  Aside from
strictness, a one-tuple is isomorphic to the element inside.  We like
category theory, so we ignore trivial isomorphisms.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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