Unit unboxed tuples

[wren ng thornton]

On 1/10/12 10:31 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I thought of suggesting (#) in lieu of (##). That might work 
better for parsing et alia since it removes the whitespace sensitivity 
of (##) vs (# #).

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