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Their main distinction seems to be that a future is a 3-tuple (process, cell, queue).

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Quick take

(databases) A single row in a relational database.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tuple gathered in one view.

noun

(databases) A single row in a relational database.

noun

(programming) A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.

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(set theory) A finite sequence of terms.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tuple.

noun

(databases) A single row in a relational database.

noun

(programming) A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.

noun

(set theory) A finite sequence of terms.

noun

(computing) A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.

Example sentences

Their main distinction seems to be that a future is a 3-tuple (process, cell, queue).

If the value is interpreted as a tuple and has a predetermined form, then you can get to a relational (or SQL) database.

A more idiomatic way to handle this is to arrange the items in the tuple by sort precedence, then restructure the data in the tuple after the sort.

There is very little visibility as to how the code is compiled - i.e should I use a list or a tuple for some things?

The tuple of <from,to,id> is good enough for this, though clients aren't mandated to send an identifier.

You can totally just start coding, and then later peel out this tuple into a named type and such.

The tuple (Full Name, Date of birth, Place of birth) ought to be a suitable unique subject for an individual.

Yeah, for and while loops can be done with a simple fold - accumulating a tuple.

You might say `°` is an operation too, but it lives at the metalevel, and it's still enclosed in the (tuple-declaration).

That's mostly subjective, (a,b, °c) is a tuple of a, b and the rest being the sequence c.

I've found that many times my usage of set and list is more appropriate as their immutable counterparts (frozenset, tuple).

I wonder if buckets could be represented as lists stored inside a tuple or another list...

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And again, explaining difference to newbies is painful ("tuple is a handicapped list").

One can argue that their future meets the "read-only view" definition because cell is only to be written to by the same tuple's process.

I did find that using the example relx.config, I could never past the "No goals specified for this release..." error as long as the app goals list in the release tuple was empty.

I hadn't seen before the shareholder value / CEO compensation tuple connected to an academic paper: "[...] dating back to 1976 [...] when Michael Jensen and William Meckling of the University of Rochester published in the Journal of Financial Economics their paper Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure.