Discussion on groupBy

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

groupBy is an important primitive for relational algebra queries on 
data. Soon to follow are operators such as aggregate() which is a sort 
of reduce() but operating on ranges of ranges. With those in tow, a 
query such as

SELECT COUNT(*), SUM(x) FROM data GROUP BY userid

can be expressed as:

data
   .groupBy!((a, b) => a.userid == b.userid)
   .aggregate(count, (a, b) => a.x + b.x);

We're working the kinks out groupBy now. Those interested please follow 
at https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13936.


Thanks,

Andrei