Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> According to David Whipp:
> >   (7,8,9) == 3 # true
> >   (7,8)   == 2 # true
> >   (7)     == 1 # false
> >   ()      == 0 # true?
> 
> Hell, yes, why didn't I think of that?  This is exactly the same
> problem that afflicts Python's tuple syntax!

various 1-uple syntaxes:

       a or [a]   Ruby
       a,         Python
       tuple([a]) Python
       (a)        Perl  
       ((a))      merd
       {a}        Smalltalk         

"http://merd.net/pixel/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html#Various Data Types"

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