Re 22: consider the empty product/tuple and suddenly you are in the
realm of conspiracy theories. With the functions you actually see the
true number -- they explicitly start with 0.

How far is it from the EPFL to Lake Totenkopf? Does either really exist?
Who's reality is this anyway?

  Peter


PS: no, we are probably not doomed, it's just the type of comments
people deserve for arbitrary cut-offs :-)


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:48 -0800, Michael Neale wrote:
> Thanks David !
> 
> 22... interesting...
> How did they do the syntactic support for ( and ) to mean Tuple? Is it
> special or like anything else, just defs?
> 
> On Feb 10, 11:51 am, David Chuhay <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Scala has tuple classes up to size 22 included in the base langauge
> > package. The (var1, var2, ...) syntax gets compiled into an
> > instantiation of the properly sized Tuple class.
> >
> > Michael Neale wrote:
> > > So how would you do it in scala ;) ?
> >
> > > (sorry I always find it crushing how easy everything is in scala, when
> > > I have to look at java).
> >
> > > Of course you can just do:
> >
> > > def foo() : (String, Int) = ("Hello", 42)
> >
> > > never looking into what scala *actually* does with tuples, if its
> > > something nasty or not... (someone else I am sure knows if it is a
> > > good or bad thing).
> > 


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