Why use tuples instead of objects?

Question

The codebase where I work has an object called Pair where A and B are the types of the first and second values in the Pair. I find this object to be offensive, because it g

Answer 1

The obvious example is a coordinate pair (or triple). The labels are irrelevant; using X and Y (and Z) is just a convention. Making them uniform makes it clear that they can be treated in the same way.