I'll have to defer responding to the general idea of your latest post until later, but here's one quick quip:

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 2:14 PM Matthew Rahtz via Typing-sig <typing-sig@python.org> wrote:

```
IntTuple = Tuple[int, *Ts]

IntTuple  # Behaves like Tuple[int, Any, ...]!?
```

I'm guessing there was a good reason that heterogeneous tuples of arbitrary length like this weren't supported by PEP 484?

I think we considered it as a future extension -- IIRC it's been proposed and we just didn't think there would be enough applications to warrant the extra complexity in mypy. I don't think there are particularly good theoretical reasons to reject it.

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