[Twisted-Python] What rough protocol, its hour come at last, slouches towards Austin to be born?
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Mon Apr 8 19:17:48 EDT 2002
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 17:53, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:08 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> > 1: use of the word "tuple".
> I'd say that tuple is pretty standard terminology. It's used quite
> heavily in PostgreSQL's source code for example, and I've heard mention
> of it in reference to common lisp.. Other things probably use it, I
> don't think it had anything to do with python, I think python's use of
> it is just the most prolific.
dictionaries define "tuple" as:
"In functional languages, a data object containing two or more
components. Also known as a product type or pair, triple, quad, etc.
Tuples of different sizes have different types, in contrast to lists
where the type is independent of the length. The components of a
tuple may be of different types whereas all elements of a list have
the same type."
This is not quite what Python means. PostgreSQL defines tuple as:
"an individual state of a row; each UPDATE of a row creates a new
tuple for the same logical row".
In Python, it means simply "a list which is immutable". I think that
these three definitions are sufficiently incompatible that one should
not use the word in a vocabulary for a protocol which is supposed to be
cross-langauge.
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