Well at some level it is an ordered sequence of characters. Right? Now it is not represented this same way. You don't see strings inside these open parens and closed parens.

现在字符串不是用这种方式表达的,你没有看到字符串里有开括号闭括号,字符串中间也没有逗号,但是它有同样的属性。

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