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Tuples require object deconstruction syntax. KatLang does not have object deconstruction feature. KatLang has simply deconstructed the function into input and output. In KatLang you define algorithms by specifying inputs and outputs. If You use implicit parameter, then the algorithm has an input. If You do not use implicit parameters, then the algorithm has only output and it is more like a data structure rather than a function.

I agree, that parameter ignorance operator # is ugly. I do not like it. The plan is to remove it in the future versions, but it requires some research.

About expression reading and parsing... Your argument is correct, but KatLang expressions are relatively short. I do not expect that KatLang will replace general purpose programming languages. KatLang is just a simple language for calculations. Main goal was to redesign the calculator and KatLang is good for that.

Minor technical correction: tuples don’t require deconstruction syntax; x[0] takes the first element of a tuple in Python, and x.0 in Rust (though it is fun to note that Rust only got that in late 2014, before which pattern matching was the only way of pulling values out of a tuple).

For the rest, I maintain my position. :-)

I am mainly inspired by C#. Ok, I can agree, that some things depends on the interpretation. You can think about several returned values as a tuple. In designing Algorithm concept, I was thinking how to decompose or deconstruct a mathematical function - to be able to operate with parameters, to transform input into output. Here You will say that it is the definition of function. Well, I went little bit further. In KatLang it is very important if you use brackets () or {}. Both brackets defines an algorithm, but () cannot hold implicit parameter. Maybe thinking from this perspective will help you see some more value in KatLang. What I wanted to say is that in KatLang I 'destroyed' or 'decomposed' mathematical function and used the parts to construct a concept that in KatLang is called an algorithm.

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