[Agda] tuple selectors

[Andreas Abel]

On 12.08.2013 09:56, Sergei Meshveliani wrote:
> I do not find a natural access to a tuple field.
>
> 1) Pattern matching does not work in the construct of
>     ...
>        where
>        (_ , _ , z, _) = p
>
> (it needs a more complicated code).

You could try

   let _ , _ , z , _ = p
   in  ...

> 2) I wonder of whether I need to use  records  everywhere for tuples.

Often, records are preferable since field names offer some natural 
documentation.

> 3) Setting to the code the compositions like  proj₁ ∘ proj₂ ∘ proj₂
>     is much less writable and readable than  `tuple43'.
>
> So, I define the selectors like
>
>    tuple43 : ∀ {a b c d} {A : Set a} {B : Set b} {C : Set c}
>                                                  {D : Set d} →
>                                                         A × B × C × D → C
>    tuple43 = proj₁ ∘ proj₂ ∘ proj₂
>
> Am I missing something?
> Does Standard library need to include several  tuple-ij  selectors?
>
> Regards,
>
> ------
> Sergei
>
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