[m-dev.] for review: tuples [1]

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Aug-2000, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Implement builtin tuple types, similar to those in Haskell.

>From a language design stand-point, one disadvantage of tuples
is that it is difficult to write type class instance declarations
for them, because they are unbounded in arity, and there is no
way to write a single instance declaration which works for all
tuple types.

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