Automatic minimally sized SELECT clauses in SQL using D templates.

[Chad J]

On 03/08/2012 07:00 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 04.03.2012, 19:58 Uhr, schrieb Chad J
> <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com>:
>
>> I'd almost be sort of surprised if someone here hasn't thought of this
>> already, but I'll drop it out here anyways.
>>
>> This is a proof-of-concept program I wrote to do a query with the
>> convenience of a "SELECT * FROM ...", but without actually pulling every
>> column in the database.
>
> Yes, there is an existing D library that use CTFE to generate lazy
> evaluated data structures from SQL queries. And although I was very
> impressed by the solution and how it integrated with foreach I forgot
> the name and URL. (Haven't been using SQL since a while.) Maybe someone
> else remembers. I usually find it helpful to look at other peoples'
> solution to the same problem, since D offers so many concepts and you
> easily miss some good stuff.

Cool, thanks for pointing that out.