nders). This, I think, is just plain beautiful.
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Keith,
Your summary of LINQ is
20, 2005 12:47 PM
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> Keith,
> Your summary of LINQ is correct in technical details. I believe that the
> comment was about preferred syntax. The same could be done f
level something that is more "Pythonish" would be nice.
Michael
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LINQ is *very* simple. It's simply, as Anders puts it, a pattern for
describing queries. It's made useful by way of extension methods and
the compiler deciding to convert a lambda expression not into a
delegate, but into an expression tree.
The query methods (Where, OrderBy, Select, etc) take tre
LINQ is pretty cool -- thanks for the update Keith.
I do find it amusing that many of these "queries" are available in standard
Python through list comprehensions, lambda, etc.
Here's a simple LINQ example:
[Category("Restriction Operators")]
[Title("Where - Simple 1")]
[Description("This sample
