[Haskell-cafe] Is () a 0-length tuple?

[Ross Mellgren]

It is kind of a 0-length tuple, if you squint, though it's usually  
called "unit". Each tuple type is entirely distinct from each other,  
so there's nothing that indicates that something is a tuple except for  
the spelling -- (a,b,c). For example, unlike python, there is no way  
to determine the length of a tuple at runtime (e.g. length ()) nor  
iterate at runtime (as the types are heterogeneous).

-Ross

On Nov 6, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Pasqualino Titto Assini wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that the json library maps () to a JSON empty array:  
> [].
>
> This makes sense if () is a 0-length tuple, the (2,"hi") tuple for
> example maps to [2,"hi"]
>
> But is it so in Haskell?
>
> In what sense () is a 0-length tuple?
>
> Thanks,
>
>              titto
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