[Python-ideas] Variable-length, homogeneous tuple: why? (was: Optional static typing -- the crossroads)

[Skip Montanaro]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> I have encountered many uses of “homogeneous, variable-length sequence”
> and every time a Python tuple is used for that, I perceive a Python list
> would be better precisely *because* it better indicates that semantic
> meaning.

Agreed. While "variable-length" doesn't imply mutability, they often
seem to go hand-in-hand.

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