On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:40:37 +1200, BCS <a...@pathlink.com> wrote:
Reply to Lutger,
BCS wrote:
...
all LINQ is is a set of standard nameing conventions and sugar. I Add
a "Where" function to some SQL tabel object and you get the above as
well.
...
Not really, LINQ is 'sugar' for the underlying libraries that
As far as language features go, I'm even less impressed with sugar for
libraries.
implements querying. Instead of calling it just sugar, it is more
proper to call it a language in it's own right.
I still don't think it's anything to spectacular. The AST stuff on the
other hand...
LINQ's syntactic sugar is not bad in my opinion. With .net its more
acceptable to have syntactic sugar for a library that it depends on as it
is all part of the base framework that is going to be there but with D I
think we could all agree that a LINQ like query just doesnt fit in too
well (for now at least)
