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by jampekka 264 days ago
You could have it like in Python tuples where 1 is a scalar and 1, is a tuple.
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True, but I think that wouldn't be any more intuitive or error safe than the :: syntax.
Error safe, the : or :: I kind of doubt it, I think that finding a typing mistake (two : instead of 1) won't be easy..