[Python-Dev] Py2.6 ideas

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    >> Hm, but why would they still have to be tuples? Why not just have a
    >> generic 'record' class?

    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.)  Based
on posts the current thread in c.l.py with the improbable subject "f---ing
typechecking", lots of people refuse to believe tuples are anything other
than immutable lists.

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