Feb. 16, 2007
12:51 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:41:51PM -0600, skip@pobox.com wrote:
Tim> Hmm - possibilities. "record" definitely has greater connotations Tim> of heterogeneous elements than "tuple", which would put paid to the Tim> constant arguments that "a tuple is really just an immutable list".
(What do you mean by "... put paid ..."? It doesn't parse for me.)
"Put paid" usually means "to finish off"; Tim is saying this would finish the constant arguments that &c &c... --amk