[Haskell-cafe] Showing the 1 element tuple

[Dan Weston]

More generally, is there an operator version of dotted pair notation 
(gasp, did I just lisp?) that works like:

data Tuple a b = () | Tuple a b

()    == ()
( ) 1 == Tuple 1 ()
(2,'a',"hello") == Tuple 2 (Tuple 'a' (Tuple "hello" ()))

And is there anyway in Haskell to restrict the type definition above to 
require that b be a type that can be constructed (possibly recursively) 
with only () or Tuple, so the user doesn't do something stupid like 
Tuple 1 'a', which is not a valid dotted pair?

Dan

John Meacham wrote:
> have it be 
> ( ) 1
> 
> with a space between the parens to denote that it is a single tuple
> rather than a nullary one.
> 
>         John