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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Aug-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 02-Aug-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > My personal feeling is that having efficient, working tuples is of higher
> > priority than list-style decomposable tuples.
> 
> Well, personally, I want to have my cake and eat it too: I would like
> efficient working tuples AND in addition I want to be able to write
> instance declarations that will handle tuples of arbitrary arity.

... but unfortunately that seems to be a lot more difficult than I
had hoped.

I guess we will just have to settle for having efficient working
tuples and just live with the issue regarding instance declarations.

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