Linq and the like

[Kapps]

On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 23:55:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/17/2013 2:59 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 21:00:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2008 1:07 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>>> LINQ (and its future parallel extensions), with its 
>>>> additional syntax, may be
>>>> a good thing to add to D:
>>>> http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/for-loops-using-i-i-enumerators-or-none.html
>>>>
>>>> You can use the same syntax to simplify parallel code, DB 
>>>> access code, etc.
>>>
>>> D already has that with ranges and component style 
>>> programming.
>>
>> Yes, but did it have them five years ago? ;)
>
> No. But it doesn't need to be added to D because D has it 
> already.

This thread was posted 5 years ago. :P It just got bumped up 
today.


As for the implementation of lambdas to generate SQL queries and 
the like, there was a pull request for a __traits(codeof) that 
could have been used to do such a thing. Unfortunately, there 
were issues with it in some fundamental way, and it was scrapped. 
A __traits(astof) would be quite interesting for this.