From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-02-04T06:56:41+09:00
Subject: Re: What is a tuple?


On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 04:35 PM, Bob X wrote:

> [snip]

> Tuples are immutable lists.
>
> "Tuples have many uses. For example: (x, y) coordinate pairs, employee
> records from a database, etc. Tuples, like strings, are immutable: it 
> is not possible to assign to the individual items of a tuple (you can 
> simulate much of the same effect with slicing and concatenation, 
> though). It is also possible to create tuples which contain mutable 
> objects, such as lists."
> <-- from Python docs

Thank you for the prompt response.  Could one then implement a tuple in 
Ruby as follows:

class Tuple

	attr_reader :tuple

	def initialize(*args)
		@tuple = *args
	end
end