The eponymous C#'s LINQ method, I found very useful in the following,
quite recurring use-case:
I need to get a specific element from a data structure that only
supports search semantics (i.e. returns a sequence/iterator of results).
For that, I specify very precise search criteria, so only that one item
is supposed to be found. But I'd rather verify that just in case.
"A data structure that only supports search semantics" is a recurring
phenomenon due to this:
I make a special-purpose data structure (usually for some
domain-specific data like task specification or data directory) using a
combination of existing and/or new containers. Now, these types do not
enforce all the integrity constraints of my data. And I don't wish to
construct a special-purpose class, complete with validation procedures,
and pass records into it one by one etc -- when I can just write an
initializer, loading all the data at once in a nicely readable
construct, and call it a day.
So, when querying this structure, I "know" that there should only be one
item satisfying a certain criteria - if there's more, or less, something
is wrong with the data.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46009985/get-contentcontrol-by-title-or-tag
is the most recent occasion where I had this use case (that is not
Python but the concept is language-agnostic).
--
Regards,
Ivan
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