A tuple is an instance of the class Tuple, an object by definition. It doesn't matter what a relational or logic programmer would prefer to call it, instances

A tuple is an instance of the class Tuple, an object by definition. It doesn't matter what a relational or logic programmer would prefer to call it, instances of classes are objects. I can add any behavior I like to those instances via extensions. Your tuple might not have any behavior, you might think of it as pure data, but that's a limitation of your view of things, not the reality. The language provides the ability to extend any class, your reality tunnel isn't the same as others. > ut to say that tuples are objects is no more true than saying that a user's account is an object, a TCP connection is an object, or a window on screen is an object - it mistakes representation for referent, it confuses the map with the territory. No, it makes the map useful to navigate the territory by accepting the abstraction of objects as a useful thing; there's a reason to say "everything is an object", it's a powerful ability. I'm a Smalltalk'er, everything literally is an object with methods even if/while/for/foreach statements are modeled with objects. That you find it confusing or meaningless doesn't matter to me, it's my reality tunnel and it works well.