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

[Pasqualino "Titto" Assini]

The syntax is similar, but what else is?

In JavaScript there is a "null" value, that is the only value of the null type.

Isn't () the same thing?  The only value of the unary type?

Best,

                titto


2009/11/6 John Dorsey <haskell at colquitt.org>:
>> In what sense () is a 0-length tuple?
>
> In what sense isn't it?
>
> Data.Tuple is much to narrow to be of any use here.  () is in at least most,
> if not all, of the type classes that tuples are in.  The syntax is
> strikingly similar.
>
> If you ask me, it walks/quacks/smells like a duck, so it's a duck.
>
> Regards,
> John
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