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tuple is a fixed-size array array is a java array list is a sequence which are java Collections (Set/Map/List)

• throwaway4good 6y ago
  Yeah - I figured it would be related to interopt with the Java runtime. However it is a bit sad, language designers never seem to bother cleaning up collection types when designing a new language. There really should be just one list type.
  • dvdkon 6y ago
    Agree with array/list, we don't need more contiguous chunks of memory, but tuples are very different, if only because they allow elements of different types. They're really more ad-hoc unnamed structs than collections.
    • nalenth 6y ago
      in strictly typed languages that would be correct, and I still somewhat agree, but AviatorScript is dynamically typed, and allows lists containing elements with different types. It's basically List<Object>. So it seems to be a strictly semantic distinction.