On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

> I understand the lack of distinction between a unit type and a 0-tuple,http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/
> since they are isomorphic.

It's more we pronounce 0-tuple as unit, they are identical.

> But it is strange that there is no 1-tuple,
> since _|_ and the 1-tuple (_|_) would be different things entirely, no?

Yes, it would be useful, but what would the syntax be? (x) already
means something else - namely grouping. Yhc defines both Tuple1 and
_E, both of which are the 1-tuple. I'd like it if there was a standard
definition Box for the 1-tuple, in the base libraries.