Re: [Haskell-beginners] Are tuples really needed?

Wouldn't Haskell be "cleaner" if it had left tuples out, replacing them with some standard types added (Pair, Triple, ...) and similar fst, snd functions? Then curry and uncurry wouldn't even be needed if I have this right.

I guess it's a matter of syntax. Arguably (x,y) is much clearer and closer to mathematical notation than Pair x y. Don't forget, the same story for lists, you can represent [a,b,c] with Cons a (Cons b (Cons c Nil)) but from ancient times of lispers use a syntactic sugar for that.