tuple

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Pattern matching can be used only for determining run-time properties of values; the number of elements in a tuple is specified by the type of the tuple, which is checked at compile time.

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  • You probably noticed right away, in that list of relational issues in the previous section, that I used the formal terms relation, tuple (usually pronounced to rhyme with couple), and attribute. —  O'Reilly News
  •  Example Define class Employee: type tuple (name: string; birthdate: date; salary: float;); operations create-emp: employee; destroy-emp: boolean; End employee; —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • One "Free / Open Source software" (FOSS) CRM / ERP missing that is stable, built on QT development platform and Postgres database is "PostBooks" from X-tuple, the respected, mature European manufacturing ERP vendor. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • For example, I can have a tuple ( "url", "stats"), where "url" is a Hadoop "Text" object and "stats" is my own —  doggdot.us
  • The value passed to x is 3 and args then absorbs the extra positional arguments and is passed as a tuple (4,5). kwargs then takes up the keyword arguments and is passed as a dictionary . —  MSDN Blogs
 

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