Make , alias of tuple

[Ismael-VC]

Hy lang uses this:

=> (, 1 2 3)
(1, 2, 3)

• http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/tutorial.html#hy-is-a-lisp-flavored-python

currently we do this:

lisp> (tuple 1 2 3)
(1,2,3)

I'm not sure if this conflicts with the backquote syntax:

• http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_df.htm

I think clojure uses ~ am I right?

[Ismael-VC]

Or do you think a literal tuple syntax would be more useful instead?

[Ismael-VC]

What about #(1 2 3)?

[Ismael-VC]

Currently '[1 2 3] and '(1 2 3) are interchangeable, should a possible #(1 2 3) be the same as #[1 2 3]?

[swadey]

This is interesting. Many lisps use # as a reader-macro dispatch character. I think clojure uses this character for reader dispatch and I believe they use #() as an anonymous function dispatch as in #(+ %1 %2) which translates into (fn [a b] (+ a b))

Perhaps we use either the (, _ _) or use tuple dispatch #tuple{} or #tuple() and just properly implement constructor dispatch. The word tuple can be any constructor in that case.

What do you think?

[swadey]

just pushed a version that includes an experimental version of reader dispatch. two further steps would be necessary to support tuples:

1. tuples have to become first-class iterables
2. a reader function needs to be attached. I'll do something along this line tomorrow.