Re: Constraints on definition of `length` should be strengthened

On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Sven Panne wrote:

[ Hit the wrong button... :-P ]

2017-04-03 22:48 GMT+02:00 Sven Panne : [...] Again, this mathematically correct, but more often than not the main intent of using a tuple- [...]

Again, this is mathematically correct, but more often than not, the main intent of using a tuple is not a curried function but a heterogeneous container with no special bias at all.

I think the special syntax (a,b,c) emphasises the unbiased nature and I think that tuples are often chosen because of that syntax (and not because of the prefix form (,,)). However, I guess we are in the wrong thread. I just wanted to comment on David Feuer whose explanation could be (mis)understood as if there is a controversy about whether custom data types like Foo a b should be considered biased or not.