Unit unboxed tuples

[Tyson Whitehead]

On January 8, 2012 23:49:47 wren ng thornton wrote:
> An alternative is to distinguish, say, (# x #) and its spaceful
> constructor (# #) from the spaceless (##); and analogously for the boxed
> tuples, though that introduces confusion about parentheses for boxing vs
> parentheses for grouping.

I think that sounds pretty good.  Here is another that occured to me today

  (#), (# a #), (# a, b #), (# a, b, c #) ...

If you replace the internal ',' with '#'

  (#), (# a #), (# a # b #), (# a # b # c #), ...

you have number of elements = number of '#' - 1.

Cheers!  -Tyson