From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T03:33:54+09:00
Subject: Re: What is a tuple?

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, 11:30:35 PM, J(ust) wrote:


> "MetalOne" <jcb@iteris.com> wrote in message
> news:92c59a2c.0302041648.a0608ce@posting.google.com...
>> In Haskell,
>>
>> lists are homogeneous and arbitrary length.
>> tuples are heterogeneous and fixed length.
>>
>> Neither is mutable.
>> Nothing in Haskell is mutable.

> is tuple same as perl's %hash?


Nothing like it!  A tuple is a fixed-length list, with some other
properties.  (See rest of thread.)

Gavin