tuple.index()

[James Stroud]

Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> "Inhomogenous" in some meaning of the word --> tuple

I think that you have nailed it here. I don't think anyone on this list 
is capable of giving a "concrete" (as you have put it) operational 
definition of "inhomogenous". They will resort to use cases and thus 
cloud the definition with programming philosophy.

So, programming philosophy, whether it will be admitted or not, is fully 
responsible for the exclusion of index() from the tuple interface.

But perhaps we could take "not necessarily homogenous" to be the 
operational definition of "inhomogenous". Of course then we would have 
to define necessary...

James