"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message news:20071114190057.GA32728 at phd.pp.ru... | 1, 2, 3 is a tuple, and () is a tuple, should there be a syntax for an | empty tuple without parenthesis? The only thing I have thought of is a bare comma, but I like that even less than the () exception and expect most would agree ;-)