"># banana: 18</span>
<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># cat: 5</span>
<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># dog: 3</span>
<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># ermie: 1</span>
<span class="mdzsyn-comment"># flamingo: 23</span></code></pre><h2>Bracketed tuples
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<p>Under the hood, there are two kinds of tuples: bracketed and non-bracketed. We
have seen above that bracket tuples are used to create a tuple with <code class="mendoza-code">[]</code>
characters (ie: a tuple literal).  The way a tuple literal is interpreted by