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List:       haskell-beginners
Subject:    Re: [Haskell-beginners] Are tuples really needed?
From:       Dmitry Vyal <akamaus () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-08-29 6:21:16
Message-ID: 503DB4DC.2070308 () gmail ! com
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 > Wouldn't Haskell be "cleaner" if it had left tuples out, replacing 
them with some standard types added (Pair, Triple, ...) and similar fst, 
snd functions? Then curry and uncurry wouldn't even be needed if I have 
this right.

I guess it's a matter of syntax. Arguably (x,y) is much clearer and 
closer to mathematical notation than Pair x y. Don't forget, the same 
story for lists, you can represent [a,b,c] with Cons a (Cons b (Cons c 
Nil)) but from ancient times of lispers use a syntactic sugar for that.

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