why can't % operator use a list?

[Erik Max Francis]

Guy Middleton wrote:

> If would be nice  if the % operator could work on lists as well as
> tuples:

So that lists can be passed in as raw arguments.  This question could
then move on to custom sequence types, and then you've devolved into a
huge mess.  It's easy enough to convert your list -- or any user-defined
sequence type -- with the tuple function/type, anyway:

	S % tuple(L)

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